BOX WELL -PATTERSON 

EXAMINATIONS 



A COMPLETE LIST OP ALL QUESTIONS ISSUED BY 

THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOLS SINCE 

THE PATTERSON LAW WENT INTO EFFECT. 



Compiled for the Use of Teachers Who Are Preparing 

Pupils for the Patterson Examinations or for 

Admission to High School, and for 

Pupils for Home Study. 



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BOXWELL -PATTERSON 

EXAMINATIONS 



A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL QUESTIONS ISSUED BY 

THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOLS SINCE 

THE PAl TERSON LAW WENT INTO EFFECT. 



Compiled for the Use of Teachers Who Are Preparing 

Pupils for the Patterson Examinations or for 

Admission to High School, and for 

Pupils for Home Study. 



ATHENS, OHIO 
PUBLISHED BY THE OHIO TEACHER 

1912 






BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 



Box well- Patterson Examinations. 



Prior to 1902 the county examiners prepared the ques- 
tions used in examining pupils from the rural and village 
schools for the purpose of ascertaining, under what was 
then known as the Boxwell Law, the fitness of such pupils 
to enter high schools. Up to this time physical geography 
was required in such examinations, but the act of March 
28, 1902, dropped physical geography from the list of re- 
quired subjects for admission to high schools and required 
the State Commissioner of Common Schools to prepare the 
questions for each of the two examinations and send them 
to the clerk of the county board for use in the examinations 
in April and May. The following lists include every ques- 
tion that has been asked by the Commissioner since the 
law went into effect. 

The questions are here given in groups, just as they 
were given in the examinations, and the dates of examina- 
tions are also noted. This is done in order that teachers 
using these lists may compare one with another, noting 
the trend or tendency from year to year. 

To the twelve complete sets of questions prepared by the 
School Commissioner's office, the publisher of this pamph- 
let has added eleven sets of questions prepared and used by 
county examiners in 1900 and 1901, prior to the passage of 
the law requiring the School Commissioner to prepare the 
questions and send them to the examiners. These lists 
were selected at random over the State, but it will be ob- 
served that the examiners' questions, on the whole, are 
more difficult than those sent out from the Commissioner's 
office. 

Any number of copies of this little book will be sent post- 
paid for 25 cents each, or at the rate of $2.00 a dozen when 
ordered in quantities of twelve or more. Address 

THE OHIO TEACHER, Athens, Ohio. 



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Pupils' Examination — April 19, 1902. 

(Under Act of March 28, 1902.) 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Make and name the ordinary punctuation marks. 2. 
Mark diacritically the following words : visual, calico, aisle, 
air, coordinate. 3. Give the force and meaning of the fol- 
lowing affixes: con, anti, ly, ing and ad. 4. Spell the fol- 
lowing words to he pronounced by the examiner: (1) busi- 
ness, (2) until, (3) bureau, (4) niece, (5) supersede, (6) 
separate, (7) isolate, (8) cemetery, (9) souvenir, (10) 
synopsis, (11) privilege, (12) deceive, (13) diphtheria, (14) 
neuralgia, (15) hygiene, (16) tomato, (17) sycamore, (18) 
Constantinople, (19) Marseilles, (20) Cincinnati. 5. Select 
eight of the above words and give their definition. 
READING. 
Oral reading from standard authors to be conducted by 
the examiners. 

WRITING. 
1. The general character of the manuscripts will be used 
in part in determining the grade in this branch. 2. Copy 
the following quotation in your best handwriting: 
Sunset and evening star 

And one clear call for me; 
And may there be no moaning of the bar 

When I put out to sea. 
But such a tide as moving seems asleep. 

Too full for sound and foam. 
When that which drew from out the boundless deep. 
Turns again home. 

— Tennyson. 
ARITHMETIC. 
1. Define factor, ratio, commission, least common mul- 
tiple, interest. 2. How do you find the cost price when the 
selling price and rate of gain are given? How do you find 
the present worth of a debt? 3. I sold an article for $17.50 



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and lost 12% per cent.; what per cent, would I have gained 
or lost had I sold it for $15.00? 

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5. I gave my agent $162.50 with which to buy corn at 
62% cents a bushel, after deducting his commission of 4 
per cent. How many bushels did he buy? 6. Express in 
figures: one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and 
six and eighteen ten-thousandths; one hundred and seven 
thousand two hundred and six ten-millionths. Express in 
words: 298.015; 500.01025; 1256.081. 7. How many bushels 
of wheat can be put in a bin 8 feet square and 9 feet high? 
8. What are the proceeds of a note of $142.00 dated August 
15, 1901, and payable November 4, 1901, discounted at 10 
per cent.? 9. Find the area in acres of a piece of land .5 
mile long and .3 mile broad. 10. I owned % of a farm and 
sold y^ of my share to A, who then had 40 acres less than I 
had left. How many acres in the farm? 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 

1. Write a sentence that will contain a noun in the ob- 
jective case, a noun in apposition, a pronoun in the pos- 
sessive case, and a descriptive adjective. 2. Write a 
synopsis of the verb sing in the third person, singular num- 
ber, active and passive voice, indicative mood. 3. What is 
a direct object? An indirect object? A predicate object? 
Write sentences to illustrate each. 4. What are relative 
pronouns? Name them. To what does each refer for 
antecedent? 5. What are subordinate clauses? Causal 
clauses? Clauses of purpose? Write an example of each. 
6. What are the parts of a letter? Illustrate by writing a 
letter to Mr. John Newton, 89 State St., Boston, Mass., tell- 
ing him something of your school work this year. 7. An- 
swer the following invitation: Mrs. James Logan requests 
the pleasure of Miss Adams's company at dinner on Wed- 
nesday, April thirteenth, at six o'clock. 239 Main Street. 
8. Tell the case of the nouns and pronouns in the following 



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sentences: I asked John to bring me a drink of water. 
Washington, with his defeated army, was in the city of 
New York, just after the battle of Long Island. 9. Analyze 
or diagram the following: Captain Nathan Hale, a bril- 
liant and handsome young man, came forward and said, "I 
will undertake it." His last words were, "I regret that T 
have but one life to lose for my country." 10. What are 
conditional clauses? Indirect questions? Write an ex- 
ample of each. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

(Select any eight questions.) 
1. What is longitude? Through what grand divisions 
does the parallel of 30° north latitude pass? 30° south 
latitude? Through what grand division does the meridian 
of 80° east longitude pass? 30° west longitude? 2. Name 
five railroads in Ohio which run into Chicago. Name three 
great lines of railroad running from Chicago to the great 
West. 3. In which states are the largest forests now 
found? Where is the most coffee raised? The most tea? 
The most rice? 4. Locate: St. Louis, Minneapolis, Ma- 
nila, Milan, Yellowstone Park. Name one fact in con- 
nection with each. 5. Draw an outline map of Ohio and 
locate in it three of the largest rivers and live Ji! the 
largest cities, 6. Into which ocean do the large rivers of 
the world flow? Why? Name the mountain ranged run- 
ning from Spain eastward through southern Europe and 
Asia. 7. Where would you go to see the following: Bunker 
Hill Monument? Garfield's Monument? Mammoth Cave? 
Tower of Pisa? Garden of the Gods? The Erie Canal? 
Lookout Mountain? Harvard College? Statue of Liberty? 
Falls of Minnehaha? 8. What is meant by "standard 
time"? What is climate? Soil? Rock? River system? 
9. What crops are being harvested at this season of the 
year in Australia? How would you go from Columbus to 
Manila? 10. How do you account for the size of the fol- 
lowing cities: Paris? New York? New Orleans? Min- 
neapolis? Philadelphia? 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. What was there in the life and deeds of the following 
that you think commendable? William Penn? John 
Smith? Roger Williams? U. S. Grant? 2. Why did the 
southern states claim the right to secede from the Union? 
Which states seceded? Name five important battles of the 
Civil War. 3. With what event in history is the name of 
each associated: Balboa? De Soto? Cyrus Field? Alex- 
ander Hamilton? Daniel Webster? 4. When was the 
Northwest territory set apart? Name the states made 
from it, giving their capitals. 5. Name the six provisions 
of Clay's Compromise of 1850. 6. What difficulties were 
experienced under "The Articles of Confederation"? 7. 
Name the chief powers of Congress. 8. What is meant by 
the Electoral College? What are its duties and how per- 
formed? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. How are bones nourished? How is a broken bone 
repaired? 2. What office does the skin perform? The ten- 
dons? 3. Describe the alimentary canal. 4. Trace the 
blood from the right hand to the left hand. 5. Name three 
narcotics. What organ is first affected by narcotics? 6. 
What would you do for a fainting person? How would 
you stop bleeding from an artery? From a vein? 7. What 
is the object of respiration and what are the organs of 
respiration? What are some of the evils of mouth-breath- 
ing? 8. What can you state as to the habits of people liv- 
ing in different climates, in respect to diet? 9. What is 
the value of sugar as a food? Why is a mixed diet neces- 
sary? 10. Tell briefly what each of the following signifies: 
Myopia, efferent nerves, paralysis, insomnia, mucus mem- 
brane. 

Pupils' Examination— May 10, 1902. 

(Under Act of March 28, 1902.) 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. What letters are always vowels? 2. Define each of 
the following words: Surveyor, century, kernel, currant, 



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glacier. 3. Mark the correct pronunciation of the follow- 
ing words: Literature, biography, island, donkey, scis- 
sors. 4. Give the meaning and illustrate the uses of the 
following: Hyphen, monosyllable, dissyllable, caret, apos- 
trophe. 5. Spell the following words as pronounced by the 
examiner: (1) Immune, (2) accelerate, (3) statistics, (4) 
municipal, (5) secrecy, (6) emphasize, (7) democracy, (8) 
scythe, (9) saucer, (10) cuckoo, (11) courier, (12) tongue, 
(13) neighborhood, (14) Napoleon, (15) Ulysses, (16) 
Cicero, (17) Wisconsin, (18) Colorado, (19) Buffalo, (20) 
Chicago. 

READING. 
Oral reading from standard authors to be conducted by the 

examiners. 

WRITING. 

1. Copy the following quotation in your best handwriting, 
carefully noting all punctuation marks: 

In the lap of sheltering seas 
Rests the isle of Penikese, 
But the lord of tne domain 
Comes not to his own again; 
Where the eyes that follow fail, 
On a vaster sea his sail 
' Drifts beyond our beck and hail. 
Other lips within its bound 
Shall the laws of life expound; 
Other eyes from rock and shell 
Read the world's old riddles well. 

— ^From Whittier's "Prayer of Agassiz." 

2. The manuscripts of applicants as returned in other 
branches will also be used by examiners in determining 
the grade in this branch. 

ARITHMETIC. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any ten questions. 
1. Make a receipted bill of the following items as pur- 
chased today from a grocery firm in some town in your 
own county: 2 quarts of beans at 10 cents per quart; one- 
half gallon of vinegar at 20 cents per gallon; a dollar's 
worth granulated sugar; 3 lb. crackers, 25 cents; 2% lb. 



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cheese, at 18 cents per lb.; small sack flour, 65 cents. 2. 
Write in proper form a note for $1,000 dated today, nm- 
ning for two years at 7 per cent., simple interest, two in- 
dorsers. 3. A pile of wood is 100 feet long, 10 feet high, 
and 8 feet wide. How many cords does it contain? 4. A 
fence was supposed to be 20 rods long, but the chain with 
which it was measured was afterwards found to be 50 feet 
3% inches long, instead of 50 feet. What is the true length 
of the fence in rods? 5. How much will it cost to carpet 
a room 21 feet by 14 feet, with Brussels carpet 27 inches 
wide, at $1.20 per yard, the carpet to be laid lengthwise of 
the room, 3 inches being lost in matching each strip. 6. A 
boy bought a knife for 50 cents, and sold it for 20 cents. 
He then bought one for 20 cents and sold it for 50 cents. 
What per cent, did he lose on the first transaction? What 
per cent, did he gain on the second transaction ? 7. A note 
of $240, dated March 4, 1896, with interest payable annu- 
ally at 7 per cent, was paid September 4, 1901. A pay- 
ment of $100 was made on the note on June 4, 1897. Find 
the amount necessary to settle in full on September 4, 1901. 
8. Reduce 4 months 19 days to the decimal of a year. 9. 
A circular park is 60 rods in diameter; how many acres 
does it contain? 10. Extract the cube root of 24061.04, 
giving all the work. 11. Write in figures: Five hundred 
thousand and ninety-four and two thousand and one hun- 
dred-thousandths; also one-half of thirty-seven tenths. 
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Give answer in integers and decimals to hundredths. 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 
1. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: Write, 
ride, lay, swim, love. 2. Write both singular and plural of 
each of the following words: House, beef, staff, mouse, 
man-servant, penny, box, potato, why, she. 3. Write sen- 
tences to illustrate each of the following, underscoring 
words called for: (a) A noun in the plural subject of a 



pupils' examinations, 1902. 9 

transitive verb; (b) abstract noun used as object of a 
preposition; (c) relative pronoun; (d) copulative verb; (e) 
conjunctive adverb. 4. Analyze or diagram: "Italy, a 
country historic for art and song, occupies a large penin- 
sula, bounded on the north by the Alps." 5. Give the 
grammatical use of all words in black type in the follow- 
ing: "Being provoked at my short-sightedness I resolved 
to return home." "The gift without the giver is bare." 
6. How are sentences classified with respect to use? Illus- 
trate your answer. How classified with respect to form? 
Illustrate your answer. 7. Define element, clause, number, 
comparison, grammar. 8. Give three rules for use of capi- 
tal letters; also two rules of syntax. 9-10. Write with care 
a composition of not less than sixty words on either one of 
the following subjects: "Ohio," "Our Schoolhouse," "The 
Books I Like," "George Washington." 

GEOGRAPHY. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Name five counties of Ohio, giving their county seats. 

2. Bound Pennsylvania, naming and locating its capital. 

3. Name the five great lakes. Tell something of their size, 
depth, and commercial importance. 4. Name two very 
important rivers to be found in each of the following: 
China, Africa, North Europe, South Africa, New England. 
5. Tell something of the Suez canal. What nation controls 
It? What waters does it connect? Why important? 6. 
Starting at the north name, in order, all the countries bor- 
dering upon the Mediterranean Sea. 7. Recount some of 
the troubles in South Africa. What nations or countries 
are involved? Who are some of the leading men? 8. 
What and where are the following: Luzon, Pike's Peak, 
Kilauea, the Everglades, Put-in-Bay, Pingal's Cave, Yo- 
semite, the Hague, Westminster Abbey, Buenos Ayres? 9. 
Give the form of government and the title of the ruler in 
each of the following countries: Switzerland, Russia, Hol- 
land, England, France, Japan, Brazil, Germany, China, 
Mexico. 10. What are some of the effects produced by 
mountains? What relation do high mountains have to 
depth of sea? What mountains are the "oldest" in Amer- 



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ica? 11. Define: Continent, barrier-reef, longitude, geog- 
raphy, delta. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 

GOVERNMENT. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any ten questions. 
1. Where were the first permanent settlements made in 
the United States? Whence did the settlers come? Tell 
something of their hardships. 2. When was Ohio admitted 
into the Union? Who was President? What city was the 
first state capital of Ohio? 3. Name, in order, the first 
five Presidents of the United States. Name also the pres- 
ent and the four preceding Presidents. 4. What are some 
of the duties of the President of the United States. 5. 
Name the county and township officers of Ohio. 6. What 
are the various courts of Ohio? What are some of the 
duties of the Supreme Court of Ohio? 7. Give one fact con- 
cerning the following: Robert Fulton, Farragut, Commo- 
dore Perry, Israel Putnam, Salmon P. Chase, LaFayette, 
Henry Clay. 8. Of whom did the United States secure the 
following: Louisiana, California, Alaska, Porto Rico, the 
Philippines? 9. Tell, if you can, the meaning of these ex- 
pressions: "Carpet baggers," "civil service reform," "bal- 
ance of trade," "Mason and Dixon's line," "the Alabama 
claims." 10. Tell something of the civil war, the causes, 
the campaigns, leading generals on both sides, the results 
accomplished. 11. Give a brief account of the growth of 
slavery in the United States. 12. With what important 
event is each associated: Columbus, John Sherman, Pat- 
rick Henry, Miles Standish, Horace Mann? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Name the cavities of the trunk. What are contained 
therein? 2. Name all the bones of the shoulder and arm. 
3. Tell something of the nervous system. What are its 
offices? 4. Distinguish between organic and inorganic 
foods, and give examples of each. 5. What are the effects 
of alcohol upon digestion? How distrub heart-action? 
What is alcohol? 6. What are flexor muscles? Extensor 
muscles? 7. What part of the body is blood? What are 



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its uses? What is the normal heart-beat per minute? 8. 
In case of apparent drowning, what are some of the simple 
directions to be followed? 9. Name the special senses. 
Describe the chief organ of hearing. 10, What is meant 
by each of the following: Spinal cord? Chyme? Pulse? 
Pyloris? Vertebra? 

Pupils' Examination — April 18, 1903. 

(Under Act of March 28, 1902.) 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. When is the final e dropped? When is it retained? 
Give examples. 2. Mark diacritically the following words: 
Italian, jealous, velocity, carbuncle, casual. 3. What is a 
synonym? Give synonyms for the following words: Fa- 
tigue, pail, eminent, irregular. Pagan. 4. Spell the follow- 
ing words to be pronounced by the examiner: Medicine, 
circus, innocent, abridgment, digestible, correspondence, 
magazine, parasol, simplicity, encircle, kerosene, treacher- 
ous, cranium, suture, rheumatism. Marietta, Egypt, San 
Francisco, Panama, Louisiana. 4. Select five of the above 
words and give their definition. 

READING. 

Oral reading from standard authors to be conducted by 
the examiners. 

WRITING. 
1. The general character of the manuscripts will be used 
in part to determine the grade of the branch. 2. Copy the 
following quotation in your best handwriting: 
Little green hunter in meadows of air. 

Busy, blithe buzzer, 'mid odorous bowers. 
Are you a bird, say, or something more rare, 

Kin to the butterfly, flirting with flowers? 
Kissing, caressing them, billing them, pressing them. 

All day long, through the bright, balmy hours. 
Bright little, light little, slight little hummer. 
Lover of sunshine and lover of summer. 

— School Education. 



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ARITHMETIC. 

NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Give a written analysis of the following: A can do a 
piece of work in 6 days, and B can do it in 7 days. In 
what time can both together do the work? 2. Give a writ- 
ten analysis of the following: Four men together owned 
1976 hogs. A owned 278, and B owned 490. C owned as 
many less than B, as B had more than A. How many did 
D own? 3. Make a receipted bill for the following items: 
3920 lb. of hay at 15 a ton; 706 bu. corn at 72 cents per bu.; 
200 lb. mill feed at $2 a hundred; 35 bu. oats at 45 cents; 2 
tons of nut coal at $3.25 per ton; load of straw at $6.75. 
4. A gentleman gave away 1-7 of the books of his library, 
lent 1-6 of the remainder, and afterwards sold 1-5 of what 
was left. He then found he had 420 books on hand. How 
many had he at first? 5. How many acres of land are 
there in a rectangular field 3-4 of a mile long and 1-3 of a 
mile broad? 6. How much will a note of $400 amount to 
in 3 years and 4 months with interest at 6 per cent., pay- 
able annually? 7. How much and what per cent, of profit 
did a man make on goods for which he paid $1300, having 
marked the goods at 30 per cent, above cost and sold them 
at 10 per cent, discount on marked price? 8. A man sold 
50 horses at $126 each. On one-half of them he made 20 
per cent., and on the remainder he lost 10 per cent. What 
was his actual profit? 9. Extract the square root of 39636 
true to two decimals. 10. What is the area of a circle 
whose radius is 90 inches? 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 

1. Write the abbreviations of the following words: Ken- 
tucky, George, Theodore, Oklahoma, forenoon, doctor, 
credit, superintendent, February, November. 2. Write both 
the singular and the plural forms of the following words: 
Tomato, ashes, family, buoy, turkey, women, teeth, wolf, 
mandman, maid-servant. 3. Diagram or analyze the fol- 
lowing: His hair is crisp, and black, and long; His face is 
like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat; He earns 
what'er he can. 4. Parse the words in black type in the 
foregoing q'*otation. 5. Define the following: Verb, sen- 



pupils' examinations,, 1903. 13 

tence, predicate, verse, syntax. Give all the principal parts 
of the verbs from which the following are taken : Indicate, 
fought, went, was, lie. 7. Write sentences to illustrate 
each of the following, underscoring words called for: (a) 
A sentence containing a clause; (b) a phrase modifying a 
noun; (c) a sentence whose verb is modified by a direct 
object and an adverb. 8. Change the adverbial phrases to 
adverbs in the following sentences: (a) The men fought 
with courage; (b) In a short time the moon will rise; (c) 
At this place my father is buried; (d) Steamboats were un- 
known at that time. 9. Upon the assumption that you will 
be obliged to leave school and go to work, write a newspa- 
per advertisement for such a position" as you would be able 
to fill, stating your qualifications. 10. Write with care a 
brief composition on one of the following topics: "The 
Celebration of Ohio Day," "Arbor Day," "William McKin- 
ley." 

GEOGRAPHY. 

NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Name and locate ten lake ports on the Great Lakes. 
2. Bound Illinois, giving capital. Tell something of its pro- 
duiJts. 3. Where are the White Mountains? the Blue? the 
Green? the Black? 4. Name and locate ten seas in and 
around Europe and Asia 5. Tell something of the new 
Isthmian canal to be constructed by the United States. 6. 
What is a delta? Name four rivers having deltas. 7. What 
and where are the following: Mexico, Kilauea, Madrid, 
St. Helena, Argentine, Moscow, Rhine, Long Island, For- 
mosa, Vancouver? 8. What state produces the most iron? 
the most salt? the most petroleum? the most rice? 9. 
Where are the rainless districts of North America? of 
Africa? 10. Tell something of the relation of rivers to the 
growth of cities and the spread of commerce. Illustrate 
your statements by well-known rivers. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

NOTE. — Applicants may select any ten questions. 
1. Write in accurate form the Preamble to the Constitu- 
tion of the United States. 2. Name the three departments 



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of our government and define the functions of each. 3. 
State some of the chief duties of each of the following offi- 
cers: The justice of the peace, the constable, the common 
pleas judge, the sheriff. 4. Name in order the Presidents 
of the United States. 5. Give an account of the first per- 
manent settlement of Ohio. 6. Name six men who have 
been Governors of Ohio. Who is the present Governor? 
7. What explorations were made by Hudson? by De Soto? 
by Drake? 8. State briefly the facts and conditions which 
justified the Declaration of Independence of the American 
Colonies. 9. What is meant by the Emancipation Proclama- 
tion? When and by whom was it issued? What was its 
effect? 10. What is meant by the expression, "underground 
railroad"? by "free trade and sailors' rights"? by "squatter 
sovereignty"? by "taxation without representation is 
tyranny"? by "cotton is king"? 11. Who was Aaron Burr? 
Harman Blennerhassett? Thomas Jefferson? Benedict Ar- 
nold? John Marshall? 12. Give one important fact concern- 
ing each of the following: James Otis, Patrick Henry, 
Henry W. Longfellow, Robert E. Lee, S. F. B, Morse, Daniel 
Webster, George Dewey. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. What is food? a proper drink? a stimulant? 2. De- 
scribe the structure and growth of a nail. 3. What is co- 
agulation? How may it protect us? 4. Explain and define 
the following: Periosteum, diaphragm, sternum, patella, 
humerus. 5. Name three narcotic poisons. 6. What is a 
gland? Name the largest gland in the body. 7. Describe 
the stomach. 8. What kind of glasses should a near- 
sighted person wear? a far-sighted person? Explain. 9. 
Name the coats of the eye. 10. From what source is alco- 
hol obtained? 

Patterson Examination — May 9, 1903. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Define the following terms: Diphthong, aspirate, syl- 
lable, orthoepy. 2. Give a list of four prefixes with their 
meanings; also a list of four suflixes with their meanings. 



pupils' examinations, 1903. 15 

3. Give all of the most important diacritical marks. 4. 
Mark correctly the pronunciation of the following words: 
Business, casual, precedence, isthmus, discern, hygiene, 
encore, dog. 5. Spell the following words, as pronounced 
by the examiner: (1) Exceed, (2) sieve, (3) sickle, (4) 
villian, (5) separate, (6) tourist, (7) milliner, (8) chisel, 
(9) allege, (10) precede, (11) nickel, (12) bilious, (13) 
judgment, (14) believing, (15) parallel, (16) Niagara, (17) 
Tennessee, (18) Oklahoma, (19) Rhine, (20) Newfoundland. 
READING. 
(Examiners will elect between giving oral reading from 
standard authors and the following written test. At the 
request of some of the examiners the following has been 
prepared where a written test is desired.) 

1. What are the uses of the punctuation marks? 2. 
What is meant by "quality of voice"? How produced? 3. 
What is emphasis? inflection? cadence? 4. What books 
have you read during the past year? Which is your favor- 
ite poem? Why? 5. Who wrote each of the following: 
Rip Van Winkle; Pslam of Life; Elegy in a Country 
Churchyard; Landing of the Pilgrims; Thanatopsis; Snow 
Bound; The Barefoot Boy; Ivanhoe? 
WRITING. 
1. The general character of the manuscripts will be used 
in part to determine the grade of this branch. 2. Copy 
with great care the following as representing your best 
handwriting: 

"Our father's God, from out whose hand. 
The centuries fall like grains of sand, 
We meet today, united, free, 
And loyal to our land and Thee, 
To thank Thee for the era done. 
And trust Thee for the opening one." — ^Whittier. 
ARITHMETIC. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Give a written analysis of the following: 38 men re- 
ceive for 23 days' labor a certain sum of money. How 
many days should 48 men labor to receive the same sum? 
2. Give a written analysis of the following: I spent 1-5 of 



16 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

my money for board, 1-3 of the remainder for books, and 
1-4 of what then remained for clothes, after which I had 
left $30. How much had I at first? 3. Find the greatest 
common divisor of 1247, 2002, 2366, 7007, and 13013. 4. 
What per cent, of 50 cents is $5.00? What per cent, of 2 
bu. is 4 qts.? 5. How do you find the diameter of a circle 
when the area is given? 6. What per cent, do I make by 
buying apples at the rate of 3 for 5 cents and selling them 
at the rate of 2 for 5 cents? 7. A note of $305.80 is given 
December 16, 1899, at 7 per cent. A payment of $25.00 
was made December 31, 1900. What was the amount due 
December 31, 1902? 8. Find the number of acres in a tri- 
angular field, the sides of which are 48, 54 and 60 rods, re- 
spectively. 9. Find the solid contents of a sphere, the 
diameter of which is 10 feet. 10. Selling on a commission 
of 2% per cent, what would my commission amount to on 
sales aggregating $1506.76? 11. Extract the cube root of 
9643927 true to one decimal. 12. Draw figures to represent 
each of the following: The rectangle, the isosceles tri- 
angle, the trapezoid, the cylinder, the frustum of a pyramid, 
the right prism. 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. (a) Write a sentence containing a clause of time; (b) 
one containing a clause of place; (c) one containing a 
clause of purpose. 2. Write a sentence containing all of 
the following: An adjective clause, an adverbial clause, 
and a noun in the objective case. 3. Give the principal 
parts of the verbs lie, burst, do, give, bring, and go. 4. 
What is meant by a phrase? How many kinds are there? 
Give examples. 5. Give the case of each noun in the fol- 
lowing sentences: (a) Jones, the lawyer, gave John, the 
newsboy, a dollar, (b) Tell William I wish George to come 
home, (c) I asked him the name of the man who was hurt, 
and what physician he wished. 6. Parse in full the words 
"I," "who," and "what," found in sentence (c) of question 
5. 7. Analyze or diagram the following: "Under the terms 
of the contract the company is authorized to sell all copies 
at sixty per cent, discount." 8. Write a letter to some firm, 



pupils' examinations, 1903. 17 

asking for a copy of a certain text book and enclosing the 
order for the payment of the same. Be sure that the head- 
ing, salutation, closing, superscription, spelling and capitali- 
zation are correct. 9. Write a ten-line statement of the 
benefits of the high school. 10. A gentleman wishes to 
build a summer cottage near a lake in the woods about ten 
miles from town. He advertises for a carpenter. Write 
the advertisement. 

GEOGRAPHY. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Bound Massachusetts, giving capital. 2. Beginning at 
the north, name the chief capes upon our Atlantic coast. 3. 
Trace the mountain highlands of Europe from west to east, 
naming the ranges of mountains. 4. Where is the great 
industrial plane of Europe? 5. What four rivers of Eng- 
land are of great commercial importance? 6. Whe,re does 
England mainly obtain the necessary food supply? 7. 
Name ten leading products of New York State. 8. What 
Is the best railroad route between New York and San 
Francisco? Which is the best way to ship grain and meat 
from Chicago to Europe? 9. Name three commercial cen- 
ters; three centers for manufactories; three delta rivers; 
and three rivers, noted for water power. 10. Name six 
chief lake ports in North America and tell why important. 
11. What is the latitude and longitude of Columbus? What 
city in Europe is in nearly the same latitude? 12. Draw a 
map of Ohio and locate three rivers, six cities, and two 
railroads. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Give a list of the biographies and histories you have 
read or used for reference in becoming acquainted with 
this branch. 2. Give the names of ten very important 
American statesmen, living or deceased. 3. Give the 
names of ten great inventors, living or "deceased. 4. What 
particular discoveries were made by Balboa? Magellan? 
Ponce de Leon? 5. What form of government had each 
of the following colonies prior to the Revolution: Virginia? 



18 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Pennsylvania? New York? Massachusetts? Georgia? 6. 
What is meant by each of the following: "X. Y. Z. Pa- 
pers"? "Charter Oak"? "Grand Model"? 7. Draw a map of 
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and locate Sara- 
toga, Ticonderoga, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, Princeton, 
Germantown, and Brandywine. 8. Name three of the most 
important causes of the Revolutionary war; three of the 
most important battles ; and three of the principal generals 
on either side. 9. When was the Constitutional Conven- 
tion? When did the Constitution of the U. S. go into ef- 
fect? 10. With what historic event is each of the follow- 
ing connected: Jefferson? Hamilton? Stuyvesant? Drake? 
Hobson? Perry? 11. What were the most important county 
officers, and explain in a brief sentence the duties of each. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

NOTE. — ^Applicants may answer any eight questions. 

1. Of what use are bones? How are bones classified? 
2. Why is bathing important to health? What are the 
most desirable times for bathing? 3. Describe the stomach 
and its openings. 4. Trace the blood from the head to the 
feet. 5. Of what value is fat in food? Sugar? Where is 
starch found? 6. How may foods be classified? 7. What 
are some of the evils of mouth breathing? Describe the 
larynx. 8. What are the effects of alcohol on the nervous 
system? On the moral nature? 9. What are the organs 
of taste? 10. How are the differences of sound of the 
voice produced? 

Pupils' Examination — April 16, 1903. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. What letters are vowels? Can you have a syllable 
which contains no vowel? 2. What is the force and mean- 
ing of the following affixes: Inter, intro, trans, acy, ence, 
ness? 3. When is the final e retained in verbs ending in 
ee or oe? 4. Mark correctly the pronunciation of the fol- 
lowing words: Condemn, endorse, almanac, biography, 
cabinet. 5. Spell the following words as pronounced by 
the examiner: (1) Ecstacy, (2) imminent, (3) cinder, (4) 
irreparable, |5) supersede, (6) effervescence, (7) policy. 



pupils' examinations, 1903. 19 

(8) bilious, (9) parallel, (10) autocrat, (11) populace, (12) 
albumen, (13) modern, (14) senior, (15) franchise, (16) 
chyme, (17) oxygen, (18) perceive, (19) persevere, (20) 
perspire. 

WRITING. 

NOTE. — ^Applicant will copy the following in his best 
handwriting, giving care to punctuation and capitals: 

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 

As the swift seasons roll! 

Leave thy low-vaulted past! 

Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, 

Till thou at length art free. 

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! 

READING. 

Examiner will have applicant read from standard au- 
thors. 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 

NOTE. — ^Applicant will select any eight questions. 
1. Name the parts of speech. 2. What is gender? How 
can you tell the masculine and feminine genders? 3. What 
is an adverb? Classify adverbs. 4. Write a synopsis of 
the verb strike in the first person plural of the indicative 
and subjunctive modes. 5. Give five rules of syntax with 
reference to nouns, pronouns and verbs. 6. Analyze or 
diagram the following: "The morals of a community are 
improved when there is a body of well educated people in 
it." 7. What is meant by a phrase? How many kinds are 
there? Give examples. 8. Write a letter to some firm, 
making an application for a position. 9. Parse the words 
in black type: Who is that man standing at the corner? 
The man who walked a mile was weary. 10. How is the 
passive voice formed? Give sentence containing a verb 
in active voice and then change sentence to passive con- 
struction. 11. Write an essay of fifty words on "The Ad- 
vantage of a High School Education." 12. Give the gender 
of the following: Bride, monk, Jew, administratrix, duke. 



20 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 

1. Name the principal cities located in the Mississippi 
Valley. Which one is of importance at present? 2. Name 
five chief exports of the United States, and tell in what 
part each is produced. 3. What is a plateau? Name and 
locate -three. 4. Name the chief nations of Europe and 
give capital of each. 5. State briefly the causes of change 
of season. 6. What is the general direction of mountain 
chains in the Western Hemisphere? In the Eastern? 7. 
Name the principal islands of the East Indies. 8. Bound 
New York, giving capital and chief mineral product. 9. 
What important canal is being constructed and what wa- 
ters will it connect? 10. Locate: Port Arthur, Seoul, Vla- 
divostok, and Harbin. 11. Describe the Rhine river. 12. 
What are the chief industries of Ohio? 13. Bound your 
county and name the county seat. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 

1. Define physiology, hygiene, and anatomy. 2. What is 
a gland? Name the largest gland in the human body, and 
give its function. 3. Trace a drop of blood from the heart 
through the circulatory system. 4. What is meant by a 
system; an organ? 5. Describe a joint. Classify joints. 
6. Classify muscles and state their uses. 7. Why does man 
need a variety of food? 8. Name the bones of the leg and 
foot. 9. What is the effect of a narcotic upon the brain; 
upon the heart? 10. Give a brief description of the eye. 
11, Name the kinds of food. Explain the general plan of 
digestion. 12. Is alcohol assimilated? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 

GOVERNMENT. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 
1. Name the thirteen original colonies. 2. What were 
the causes that led the nations of the Old World to make 
explorations and settlements in America? 3. What was 
the first permanent settlement? The first Spanish settle- 
ment? 4. What were the Navigation Acts? What were 
the Alien and Sedition Laws? 5. What were the causes of 



PUPILS'" EXAMINATIONS, 1903. 21 

the War of 1812? 6. When was the Reconstruction Period, 
and why so called? 7. Give the divisions of our govern- 
ment and the function or duty of each. 8. How are United 
States Senators elected? What are their qualifications? 
9. How is the President elected? 10. What are the pur- 
poses of the Constitution as set forth in the preamble? 11. 
Who were the following: Robert Fulton, De Witt Clinton, 
Alexander Hamilton, Stephen A. Douglas, Cyrus McCor- 
mick? 12. Name and give dates and causes of the Inter- 
colonial wars. 

ARITHMETIC. 

NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 

1. Find the amount on $100 at 6% interest, payable annu- 
ally, no interest having been paid for four years and six 
months.. 2. How many bushels will the smallest bin con^ 
tain that can be emptied by taking out either 7, 10 or 30 
bushels at a time? 3. A firm had i/4 its capital invested in 
goods, 2^ of the remainder in land, and the remaining 
$1224 in cash. What was the firm's capital? 4. There is 
a lot whose dimensions are 24 feet, 60 feet, 48 feet and 72 
feet. What will be the length of the longest possible boards 
that will exactly enclose it without cutting the boards? 5 
A can do a piece of work in 8 days, B in 12. How long will 
it take both to do the work? 6. What must be asked for 
apples that cost $3.00 per bbl., that I may reduce my ask- 
ing price 10% and still gain 20%? 7. What will it cost to 
carpet a room 25 feet by 30 feet with carpet 30 inches wide 
at $1.25 per yard? 8. What will it cost, at 25 cents per 
cubic yard, to dig a cistern 10 feet in diameter and 12 feet 
deep? 9. A and B form a partnership for one year. At 
beginning of the year A puts in $1200, B $1000; at the end 
of 6 months A put in $100 more. The gain for the year was 
$250. Find each one's share. 10. Which is the better in- 
vestment — 5% stock at 120, or 4% stock at 80? 11. Extract 
the square root of 54329781 to one decimal. 12. Make out a 
statement of seven items of goods purchased at a grocery. 



22 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Pupils' Examination — May 14, 1904. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. What is a vowel? 2. What is a consonant? Name 
them. 3. Make and name the chief diacritical marks. 4. 
Spell 20 words as pronounced by the examiner: (1) attend- 
ance, (2) baptize, (3) certificate, (4) damageable, (5) ety- 
mology, (6) fragile, (7) grotesque, (8) heuious, (9) irrigate, 
(10) judicial, (11) mucilage, (12) olfactory, (13) quaran- 
tine, (14) rheumatism, (15) seizure, (16) triennial, (17) 
vigorous, (18) weasel, (19) youthful, (20) zinc. 
WRITING. 

Copy the following quotation in your best handwriting: 
"The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing 
has been done by him that cannot be better done. There 
is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded; no 
depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded; no 
flight of imagination that may not be passed by strong and 
soaring wing." — R. W. Emerson. 

READJNG. 

The applicants will read from standard authors as di- 
rected by the examiner. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 

GOVERNMENT. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any eignt questions. 

1. Name the thirteen original colonies. 2. What were 
the causes that led the nations of the Old World to make 
explorations and settlements in America? 3. What was the 
first permanent settlement? The first Spanish settlement? 
4. What were the Navigation Acts? What were the Alien 
and Sedition Laws? 5. What were the causes of the war 
of 1812? 6. When was the Reconstruction Period, and 
why so called? 7. Give the divisions of our government 
and the function or duty of each. 8. How are United 
States Senators elected? What are their qualifications? 
9. How is the President elected? 10. What are the pur- 
poses of the Constitution as set forth in the preamble? 11. 
Who were the following: Robert Fulton, De Witt Clinton, 
Alexander Hamilton, Stephen A. Douglas, Cyrus McCor- 



pupils' examinations, 1904. 23 

mick? 12. Name and give dates and causes of the Inter- 
colonial wars. (It will be noticed that this list is identical 
with the list submitted in April.) 

GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. 
NOTE. — ^Applicants will select any eight questions. 

1. Define Grammar, Etymology, and Syntax. 2. What is 
a pronoun? Classify them. Give the relatives. 3. What 
are the properties or accidents of a verb? Define Voice. 
4. Analyze or diagram the following: 

"All things that love the sun are out of doors; 
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth." 

— ^Wordsworth. 

5. What is meant by a clause? How many kinds? Give 
examples. 6. Write the possessive case, plural number, of 
tooth, deer, ox, mouse, proboscis. Knight Templar. 7. 
Write an essay of fifty words on "The Purpose and Advan- 
tages of the Patterson Examination." 8. Write the oppo- 
site gender of each of the following: maid, earl, host, hero, 
duke, prophet, nun. 9. Write a sentence containing an 
infinitive. 10. Write a synopsis of the verb compel in the 
third person, singular number, indicative mode, passive 
voice. 11. What is a preposition? 'Give a list of six. 12. 
Parse the words in capitals in the following sentence: The 
aged man WAS ASSISTED by AS many AS came. 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
NOTE. — Applicants will select any eight questions. 

1. What is the value of the study of physiology? 2. 
Classify the bones of the body. 3. (a) Why are many mus- 
cles arranged in pairs? (b) Describe the structure of a 
muscle. 4. (a) Describe the structure of the skin, (b) 
State its various uses. 5. How does alcohol injure the 
stomach? 6. Name the various organs of digestion, and 
the digestive fluids secreted by each. 7. What are the di- 
visions of the brain? What is the function of each part? 
8. What is each of the following: serum, bile, saliva, gas- 
tric juice, chyme, fibrine, clavicle, femur? 9. Give a brief 
description of the ear. 10. Why is tobacco in all its forms 
more injurious for a boy than for a man? 11. By what 
gland is the pancreatic juice secreted? 12. Describe the 



24 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

effects of intoxicating liquors upon (a) body, (b) mind, (d) 
character. 

GEOGRAPHY. 
NOTE. — ^Applicant will select any eight questions. 
1. Why is it warmer in Ohio in May than in December? 
2. What is a river system? A mountain system? A range? 
A water divide? 3. On what waters would a vessel sail in 
going from San Francisco to London, England? 4. What 
is longitude? Latitude? What are your latitude and 
longitude? 5. Describe the Mississippi river. 6. Name the 
principal islands of the West Indies. 7. What are the chief 
exports of Africa? Of Australia? 8. Compare Japan and 
Russia as to (a) size, (b) population, (c) civilization. 9. 
Tell what and where each of the following is: Moscow, 
Nile, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Glasgow, Rome, Key West. 
10. Draw a map of Ohio. 11. Name our chief island posses- 
sions and locate them. 12. Give the chief cities of Asia. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 

GOVERNMENT. 
NOTE. — ^Applicant will select any eight questions. 
1. What battle was the turning point in the Revolution- 
ary war? In the Civil war? 2. Contrast the early settlers 
of Massachusetts and Georgia. 3. Who were the Pilgrims, 
or Puritans? 4. Why are the following days set apart as 
holidays: May 30, July 4, December 25, and February 22? 

5. What places have been capitals of the United States? 

6. Give an account of Arnold's treason. 7. What Presi- 
dents of the United States have been assassinated? Who 
succeeded each? 8. How is a territory admitted into state- 
hood? 9. (a) From whom did we make the Louisiana Pur- 
chase? (b) When? (c) Price paid? (d) What did it in- 
clude? (e) Who was President of the United States at the 
time of the purchase? (f) How is the "centennial of the 
Louisiana Purchase to be celebrated? 10. How does a bill 
become a law? 11. (a) How and where are the laws of 
Ohio made? (b) Of what does the United States Congress 
consist, and how are its members chosen? 12. (a) Name 
at least two qualifications made necessary by the Constitu- 
tion that one may become President of the United States. 



PUPILS^ EXAMINATIONS, 1905. 25 

(b) What is treason against the United States? What kind 
of testimony is necessary to convict of treason? 
ARITHMETIC. 
NOTE. — ^Applicant will select any eight questions. 
1. A wagon loaded with hay weighs 4500 lbs.; the wagon 
alone weighs 1000 lbs. How many tons of hay in the load? 
2. A note of $600 is dated March 4, 1902, bears interest at 
6%%. What is the amount due today? 3. Reduce 
(.^^XVs^^^HX^Vs^ to a decimal fraction. 4. If A can do 
a piece of work in 10 days, B in 5 days and C in 20 
days, how many days will it take all three working to- 
gether to do the work? 5. A boy on a bicycle in making 
a journey rides at a rate of 8 miles an hour. Two hours 
after he starts his sister follows at the rate of 5 miles 
an hour. When the boy has been on the road 5 hours, 
how far away is his sister? 6. A farmer raised 120 bush- 
els of potatoes in one field and twice as many in another. 
After putting i^ of his crop in the cellar and selling }^ 
of the remainder, he distributed what he had left in the 
fields equally among 8 poor families. How many bushels 
did each family receive? 7. An agent received $5100 with 
which to buy wheat at 80^ per bushel after deducting his 
commission of 2%. How many bushels did he buy? 8. 
The minute hand of a clock is 6 inches long. Over what 
distance does the point move in 1 hour? 9. When it is 4 
p. m. atL San Francisco, longitude 122° 26' 15" W., what 
time is it at St. Louis, longitude 99° 15' 15" W.? 10. Ex- 
tract the cube root of 57512456. 11. What will one gross 
of buttons, listed at $1.00 per dozen, cost at 20 and 10% 
off the list? 12. What will it cost at 50^ per cubic yard to 
excavate a cellar 6 feet deep and 12 feet square? 

Pupils' Examination — April 15, 1905. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Relate two events in the life of Columbus that show 
his perseverance. 2. Where and for what purpose did 
Lord Baltimore found a colony in America? 3. What bat- 
tle do you consider marked the turning point of the Revo- 



■26 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

lution? Give reasons. 4. What were the important events 
of the Hayes Administration? 5. Name six prominent gen- 
erals of the Civil war and tell on which side each fought. 
6. What Presidents has Ohio furnished? What battle- 
fields? 7. Name five important events connected with the 
history of slavery in the United States. 8. Name three 
classes of persons who have no legal right to vote. 9. 
State three purposes, given in the preamble, for which the 
Constitution of the United States was framed. 10. What 
is the name of the highest court of the United States? 
How are its judges chosen? 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 
1. Distinguish between orthography and prosody. 2. De- 
fine the term liquid as applied in orthography. Mention all 
the letters in this class. 3. Write three suffixes that denote 
negation. Give the meaning of the prefixes: pre, trans, 
and ex. 4. Mark correctly the pronunciation of the follow- 
ing words: (1) illustrate, (2) sacrifice, (3) Arkansas, (4) 
finance, (5) sacrilege. 5. Spell the following words, to be 
pronounced by the examiner: (1) culinary, (2) secede, (3) 
sensible, (4) achieve, (5) catarrh, (6) deplore, (7) assignee, 
(8) dropsy, (9) Milwaukee, (10 depths, (11) rogue, (12) 
pigeon, (13) ballad, (14) promissory, (15) gauge, (16) 
larynx, (17) Chesapeake, (18) reverse, (19) ' Appalachian, 
(20) cargoes. 

WRITING. 
Applicant will copy the following in his best handwrit- 
ing, giving care to punctuation and capitals: 
If I could put my words in song. 
And tell what's there enjoyed. 
All men would to my garden throng. 

And leave the cities void. 
In my plot no tulips blow — 

Snow-loving pines and oaks instead; 
And rank the savage maples grow 

From spring's faint flush to autumn's red. 
My garden is a forest ledge. 
Which elder forests bound; 
The banks slope down to the blue lake edge. 
Then nlunee to denths profound. — Emerson. 



pupils' examinations, 1905. 27 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Distinguish between physiology and anatomy. 2. 
Name the bones of the arm and hand. 3. Give the com- 
position of the blood. 4. Describe the pulmonary circula- 
tion. 5. For what purpose is lime required in the body? 
Fat? 6. What are the organs of respiration? How does 
the diaphragm aid in respiration? 7. Name the digestive 
fluids. 8. Of what is the saliva composed and what office 
does it perform? 9. Classify the teeth. Upon what class 
devolves the chief duty of masticating the food? 10. Why 
are stimulants dangerous? Illustrate by alcohol. 
READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. From 100 subtract the sum of .371 and .0065; multiply 
the remainder by .3, and divide the product by .000005. 
2. Explain the relation between longitude and time. Dis- 
tinguish between standard and local time. What is the 
difference in time between Eastern standard time and Pa- 
cific standard time? 3. The proceeds of a 90 day note dis- 
counted at a bank at 6% 17 days after date are $274.17. 
Find the face of the note. 4. Define a composite number, 
power, reciprocal, meter, ratio. 5. A man bought goods at 
discounts of 20 and 30 from the list price, and sold at dis- 
counts of 10 and 4 from the list price. Find his per cent, 
of gain. 6. A square field contains 20 acres. Find th? 
number of rods of fence required to enclose it. 7. What 
is the cost of flooring a room 18 feet 6 inches long and 13 
feet 3 inches wide, at $8.25 per 100 square feet? 8. Find 
the value of 8x4 — 9x2+43, using the signs according co 
their true mathematical signification. 9. V .000961=? 10. 
What is the common denomination to which dry measure 
and liquid measure can be reduced? A cask that will con- 
tain 10 bushels of wheat will contain how many gallons 
of water? 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Name two offices of a noun that a clause may per- 
form. 2. Give the syntax of the infinitives in the following 
words in capitals: (1) The paper, TO BE sure, was rather 



38 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATSONS. 

frayed at the edges; (2) I shall endeavor TO RENDER 
it in modern parlance; (3) Shall I be left to DIE alone? 
(4) Books were written to give pleasure and TO BE EN- 
JOYED. 3. Define case, and state how the case of a sub- 
stantive is determined. 4. Write two sentences, one con- 
taining a clause in apposition with a noun, and one con- 
taining a noun in apposition with a clause. 5. State three 
different ways of comparing adverbs and illustrate each. 
6. Analyze the following selection: 

The NIOBE of Nations! there she stands, 

CHILDLESS and crownless in her voiceless woe. 

An empty URN in her withered hands, 

WHOSE holy dust was scattered long AGO. 
7. Name and classify the modifiers of NIOBE. 8. Name 
the principal and subordinate clauses in the selection and 
state the grammatical construction of each. 9. Parse the 
words in capitals. 10. Classify pronouns and use an ex- 
ample of each in sentences. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. What river is on the boundary between (a) Pennsyl- 
vania and New Jersey; (b) Vermont and New Hampshire; 
(c) Europe and Asia; (d) United States and Mexico; (e) 
Paraguay and Argentine Republic? 2. What effect is a 
great extent of seacoast likely to have upon the climate 
of a country? What effect upon the occupation of the 
people? 3. Mention two States in the United States that 
lead in the mining of coal; two in the mining of copper; 
one in the mining of salt. 4. Name the five States that 
bound Ohio. 5. Locate two important commercial centers 
upon the Gulf of Mexico; two upon the Ohio river; one 
upon Lake Superior. 6. Define (a) oasis, (b) fjord, (c) 
delta. 7. What physical conditions have contributed to 
the growth of Buffalo as a commercial center? 8. Under 
the protection of what world power is each of the follow- 
ing cities: (a) Gibraltar, (b) Manila, (c) Sitka, (d) Algiers', 
(e) Cayenne? 9. Describe the government of Canada. 10. 
What articles would you expect a ship loading at Cape 
Town to take in cargo? 



PUPILS' EXAMINATIONS, 1905. 29 

Pupils' Examination — May 13, 1905. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Define consonant, syllable, accent. 2. How are words 
classified according to syllable? Give example of each 
class. 3. State the difference between derivative and com- 
pound words. Give two illustrations. 4. Give at least two 
rules that will aid in spelling. 5. Spell correctly the fol- 
lowing words: Cincinnati, chimneys, analysis, infinitive, 
forty-four, furlough, separating, grammar, business, sieve, 
superseded, benefited, persuading, pursuing, zeros, lilies, 
promissory, rheumatism, preferred, miscellaneous. (Allow 
ten credits to each of the first four questions and three 
credits to each word in the fifth question.) 
WRITING. 

Applicant will use the following to present a sample of 
his penmanship: "We are born for a higher destiny than 
that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never 
fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands 
that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass 
before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. ' 
READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 
ARITHMETIC. 

1. A ship is worth $85,000. A man owns 7-16 of it. If he 
sells ^ of his share, what is the value of the part of his 
share which is left? 2. What will be the expense of plas- 
tering the ceiling and walls of a room 18 feet long, 15 feet 
wide, and 8 feet high, at 30^ a square yard, allowing 150 
square feet for doors, windows, etc.? 3. Multiply the 
decimal two hundred and one ten-thousandths by two and 
five thousandths, and divide the product by two millionths. 
4. What sum of money will amount to $859.75 in 4 years 
6 months at 7% simple interest? 5. Three persons pur- 
chase a farm for $2800. If A pays $1200, B $1000 and C 
$600, how shall they divide the rent, which is $224? 6. 
Define a compound number, prime factor, cancellation, 
cubic yard and square root. 7. Express decimally 3.5%. 
What per cent, of 1000 is 250? What per cent, of 250 is 



30 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

1000? 8. A farm was sold for $5950 at a loss of 15%. What 
selling price would have given a gain of 20%? 9. How do 
you find the area of a circle? The surface of a cube? 10. 
How far apart are the opposite comers of a square farm 
which contains 160 acres? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

1. What is grammar? Does the study of this subject 
affect the character of your speech? How? 2. What is a 
transitive verb? Write a sentence in which a transitive 
verb is used and tell why the verb is transitive. Write a 
sentence in which the verb is intransitive. 3. What is a 
conjugation? Conjugate the verb "write" in the present 
and past tenses in the indicative and infinitive moods. 4. 
Make a complete classification of noims. 5. Name and 
define four properties of the noun. 6. How many and what 
are the genders ascribed to nouns? What is your opinion 
of the common gender? 7. Write three sentences, each 
containing a clause and each clause having a different use 
in the sentence. 8. Give the grammatical construction or 
relation of each clause. 9. Parse the nouns, pronouns and 
verbs in the following: 

"Be noble, and the nobleness 

That lies in other men, 

Sleeping but never dead. 

Will rise in majesty 

To meet thine own." 
10. Write the principal parts of five irregular verbs. 
Define case. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 
1. Who were the Puritans? The Pilgrims? The Hugue- 
nots? In what part of America did representatives of each 
class settle? 2. What were regarded as three of the ob- 
jective points in the French and Indian war? 3. State 
fully the causes of the Civil war. 4. Name the depart- 
ments of the President's Cabinet. 5. Give the time, cause 
and results of the Mexican war. 6. What territory has 
been acquired by the United States since 1890? 7. State 
the causes of our war with Spain and two important re- 
sults. 8. During whose administration was the Lewis and 



pupils' examinations, 1905. 31 

Clark expedition undertaken? 9. Name the first six and 
last four presidents of our country. 10. Name the two 
United States Senators from Ohio. For how long a term 
are they elected? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 
1. Define physiology. State the difference between phy- 
siology and anatomy. 2. Describe the structure of a bone. 
Name the classes of bones of the human body. 3. Describe 
the structure of muscles. Name five muscles of the body 
and locate each. 4. Name and locate the vital organs of 
the body. 5. Describe the heart, and state the function of 
each chamber of it. 6. Describe the blood, and show the 
changes that occur in the lungs and in the cells of mus- 
cular tissue. 7. Describe the digestive organs of the body. 
8. Name the fluids that aid in the digestion. Wh4ch organ 
supplies each of these fluids? 9. Describe the structure 
of the skin, and give direction for the proper care of it. 
10. In case of accident by which one is liable to bleed to 
death, how would you assist the injured one while waiting 
for a physician? How determine whether the blood is 
arterial or venous? State difference in course to be pur- 
sued in stopping blood from veins and from arteries. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Define geography. 2. State five facts in regard to the 
earth which the study of geography has made clear to you. 
3. What is longitude, and how is it measured? How many 
degrees of longitude may a place have? 4. What is lati- 
tude, and how is it measured? How many degrees of lati- 
tude may a place have? 5. Name two salt water lakes, one 
of which is located in America, and explain the cause of 
the presence of salt in these lakes. Name eight fresh 
water lakes in the United States. 6. Name the sections 
into which the United States is usually divided. In which 
of these sections do you live? 7. Name the States you 
would pass through in traveling on a meridian from Co- 
lumbus to the Gulf of Mexico, and name and locate the cap- 
ital of each. 8. Name and locate five rivers of Europe, and 
the chief city on each river. 6. Name five seas on the 
coast of Asia. Name and locate five mountain chains in 



32 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Asia. 10. Bound the county in which you live and name 
the county seat of each adjoining county. 

Pupils' Examination — May 12, 1906. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. What is a preposition? How does it differ from a con- 
junction? 2. Give the passive infinitives of the verbs "to 
drink" and "to lay." 3. Write all of the singular and plural 
forms of the following words: index, sheep, analysis, news, 
penny, politics, gross, child, maid, brother. 4. What is an 
independent element? Write at least two sentences illus- 
trating different independent constructions. 5 and 6. Write 
a suitable newspaper advertisement for a young man or 
woman wishing to obtain a position as stenographer. State 
qualifications, wages expected, etc. 7. Supply appropriate 
pronouns of the third person in each of the following sen- 
tences: (a) I can walk as rapidly as . (b) 

do you think will be selected? (c) I cannot let you and 

play together, (d) He is a man I know is 

honest, (e) It was ■ who wanted you. 8. Rewrite 

the following sentences, improving the grammar and punc- 
tuation: (a) Uncle Toms Cabin is one of the world's most 
popular books, (b) Not one of the entire crew could write 
their own name, (c) We had hoped to have seen you be- 
fore you left, (d) I saw many dead soldiers riding across 
the battlefield, (e) The clerk said I can only give you one 
yard off of this piece of cloth. 9. Write a complex sen- 
tence. A sentence with a compound subject. 10. Write a 
complex sentence and diagram or analyze the sentence you 
have written. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Give the three general divisions of this subject and 
define two of them. 2. Compare Europe and North Amer- 
ica with regard to highlands. 3. Name and define three 
of the natural divisions of land; two of water. 4. Locate 
the following islands and tell to what country each be- 
longs: Corsica, Porto Rico, Madagascar, Jersey, Sicily. 5. 
Describe Cuba as to climate, government and products. 6. 
Give the route by water from Halifax to Chicago. 7. What 



pupils' examinations, 1906. ,^? 

is a glacier? How are icebergs formed? 8. Name a rivei 
which empties into the Gulf of Mexico from each of the fol- 
lowing States: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama; one which 
empties into the North sea from each of the following 
countries: England, Germany. 9. From what country does 
the United States make large importations of silk, rubber, 
linen, coffee, tea, wool, hides, wine, toys and sugar? 10. 
Locate the largest city of each continent. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Write words illustrating the different sounds of the 
letter "a" and indicate each by the proper mark. 2. Writs 
a word containing a diphthong; a word containing both 
primary and secondary accents; a compound word; the 
plural of monkey; a word which has the same form in both 
the singular and plural numbers. 3. Discriminate in mean- 
ing between the words in the following pairs: affect and 
effect; principal and principle; presence and presents; 
relic and relict; loose and lose. 4. Give a synonym of each 
of the following: immense (adj.), pale (adj.), mien (noun), 
efficient (adj.), and compel (verb). 5. Spell correctly each 
of the following words, to be pronounced by the examiner; 
abolish, complexion, dryly, idiom, routine, resource, 
roguish, append, epitaph, facial, bilious, Cincinnati, police, 
apparel, elegant, costume, censure, homicide, decease, 
caucus. 

READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. Multiply .0003 by .003 and explain the rule for point- 
ing the product. 2. Make a receipted bill of the following: 
Anson Williams bought this day of Johnson Bros., Colum- 
bus, Ohio, 3 bbls. of flour, at $3.75; 75 lbs. sugar, at 5^; 10 
lbs. coffee, at 35(^; 2 lbs. tea, at 60<J. 3. By selling flour 
at $7.00 per bbl. 16^% of the cost was gained. What did 
the flour cost? 4. A insured his house for two-thirds of its 
value at 3%. He paid $24 premium. Find the value of the 
house. 5. Reduce to miles, rods, etc., 876400 in. 6. What 



34 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

is the area of a circle whose circumference is 18 in.? 7. 
Find the amount of the following note at maturity: 

Canton, O., Jan. 12, 1905. 
On July 15, 1905, I promise to pay to the order 
of the Sprague Correspondence School two hun- 
dred fifty dollars ($250), with interest at 6%, value 
received. James Gay. 

8. A cistern is 16 feet long, 12 feet wide and 9 feet deep. 
What is its capacity in barrels? How many ounces in Troy 
pound? How many sheets in a fathom? How many sheets 
in a quire? How many dozen in a gross? How many dol- 
lars in an eagle? 10. Simplify: (9>4x7 3-7) -^ (4^x11-14 

i-Vs = ? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Locate each of the following bones in the body: Ster- 
num, patella, radius, frontal, femur. 2. Where is the heart 
located? What is its shape and about how large is it? 3. 
Where does the process of digestion begin? Where does 
it end? 4. What is the difference between venous and 
arterial blood? 5. Mention the organs of speech. 6 What 
are ligaments? Glands? 7. Of what are the teeth com- 
posed? 8. Mention two forms of exercise which you con- 
sider healthful, and tell why. 9. State three important 
lessons you have learned with reference to the effects of 
alcohol on the system. 10. Should the outside air be ad- 
mitted to the room in which you sleep? Why, or why not? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Give a brief account of an important exploring expedi- 
tion undertaken by Hudson; by De Soto. 2. Bound the 
United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitu- 
tion. 3. State with regard to the Quakers (a) what colony 
they founded; (b) their relations with the Indians; (c) 
why they were persecuted. 4. Give the location and re- 
sults of two important battles of the Revolution. 5. Men- 
tion as many important events as you can in the presiden- 
tial administration of Washington's successor. 6. What 
did the abolitionists believe with regard to slavery? Give 
the names of two prominent abolitionists. 7. What was 
the principal provision of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 8, 



pupils' examinations, 1906. 35 

What Presidents has Ohio furnished? 9. Give the cause 
of the late Spanish-American war. 10. Why are the fol- 
lowing names included in history: Robert Fulton, Eli 
Whitney, Harriet Beecher Stowe? 

WRITING. 

Copy the following selection, paying particular attention 
to neatness, punctuation and capitals: 

Speak gently! 'tis a little thing 

Dropped in the heart's deep well; 
The good, the joy, which it may bring. 
Eternity shall telL 

— G. W. Hangford. 

Pupils' Examination — April 21, 1906. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Of what are the bones composed? Mention two food 
substances which help to nourish them. 2. Describe the 
skin. Account for the necessity of frequent bathing. 3. 
Mention the organs of respiration. 4. How would you stop 
a bleeding artery? 5. Mention three secretions that act 
upon the food in the process of digestion. 6. Locate the 
kidneys. What is the office of the liver? 7. Describe 
briefly the circulation of the blood. 8. What and where is 
each of the following: Retina, tympanum, humerus, ol- 
factory nerves, lymph, triceps? 9. What are the vital or- 
gans? Give the effect of alcohol upon one of them. 10. 
Mention three cautions to be observed in the care of the 
eyes. 

WRITING. 
Copy the following selection, paying particular attention 
to neatness, punctuation and capitals: 
Leaves have their time to fall. 
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 

And stars to set; but all — 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! 

— Mrs. Hemans. 
READING. 
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 



36 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

GRAMMAR. 
1. Define syntax and give a rule of syntax relating to 
each of the following: Appositives, pronouns, the verb "to 
be." 2. Give three rules for the use of the hyphen and 
illustrate each. 3. Change the following simple sentence 
into an equivalent complex sentence; into an equivalent 
compound sentence: Gusts of wind and a pouring rain 
compelled our party to seek shelter indoors. 4. Conjugate 
the verb "to sink" in the active, indicative mode, future 
perfect tense; the verb "to work" in the passive voice, sub- 
junctive mode, past tense. 5. What is the distinguishing 
difference between a verb and a participle? 6-7. Write a 
letter renewing your subscription to a favorite magazine. 
State how much money you enclose, in what form you en- 
close it, etc. 8. Give the use of "shall" and "will" as fu- 
ture auxiliaries. Without knocking, he opened the door 
and entered so softly that I was not conscious of his pres- 
ence until he said, "Were you not expecting me"? 9. 
Classify all the clauses in the above sentence and tell what 
word each modifies. 10. Parse the words in black type. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Name the races of mankind and a people belonging 
to each race. 2. Define latitude and longitude; give the 
latitude and longitude of the North Pole. 3. How wide is 
the torrid zone? Trace the course of the equator either 
through South America or through Africa. 4. Define so as 
to distinguish: Sound, bay, gulf. Where is each of the 
following: Puget Sound, Gulf of Aden, Bay of Biscay? 5. 
Mention three large rivers of South America that empty 
into the Atlantic Ocean. Why are those which empty into 
the Pacific Ocean from the same country comparatively 
small? 6. Give the probable route and cargo of a vessel 
sailing from Constantinople to Bombay. 7. Mention a lo- 
cality in Ohio where each of the following occurs: Oil 
wells; coal mines; vineyards; tobacco fields; potteries. 8. 
What does a thermometer tell? What does a barometer 
tell? 9. Bound California. Locate a lake, a desert, and a 
city in this state. 10. Name and locate three of the prin- 
cipal cities in Canada. 



pupils' examinations, 1906. 37 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. What territory, and under the flag of what nation, did 
each of the following explore in America: Ferdinand De 
Soto, Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier? 2. Where and for 
what purpose did Lord Batlimore found a colony in Amer- 
ica? James Oglethorpe? 3. What were the Alien and 
Sedition Laws? Tell why you think that they were just 
or unjust. 4. Tell what you can about the early settlement 
of Ohio. 5. Mention the first four Presidents of the United 
States and an important event that occurred in the admin- 
istration of each of the last two mentioned. 6. Why was 
Burgoyne compelled to surrender? 7. Discuss the admin- 
istration of Andrew Johnson. 8. Mention two important 
events in the administration of McKinley; of Roosevelt. 9. 
What steps are necessary for a foreigner to become a resi- 
dent of the United States? 10. When and what were the 
services rendered to the United States by George Dewey, 
John Paul Jones, Oliver Hazard Perry? 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Distinguish between accent and emphasis. 2. Define 
aspirate, dissyllable, diphthong. 3. Give two rules to be 
observed in writing abbreviations. Write the abbreviations 
for each of the following: Junior, railroad, acre, Missouri, 
noon. 4. Write the following words correctly, dividing into 
syllables, and using mark of accent and diacritics : Allege, 
suffice, diamond, coerce, greasy, accede, kiln, said, cheese, 
loose. 5. Spell correctly the following words to be pro- 
nounced by the examiner: Millenium, academy, lettuce, 
gorgeous, fusion, abbreviate, pitiless, aghast, conceit, 
chapel, reprieve, abscess, calcium, precious, Hawaii, able- 
bodied, extol, pleasurable, solos, amethyst. 
ARITHMETIC. 

1. Define factor, power and reciprocal. 2. Analyze the 
following problem: A can do a piece of work in three 
days, and B can do it in four days. How long will it take 
them to do it working together? 3. A square field con- 
tains 10 acres. Find the cost of fencing it at 80 cents per 
rod. 4. An agent received $3000 to buy fiour, from which 
he was to deduct a commission of 2 per cent. Find the 



38 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

amount invested in flour. 5. A grocer makes a profit of 20 
per cent, by selling coffee at 25c.; what per cent, profit will 
he make by selling the same at 26c.? 6. What is the value 
of a pile of wood 80 ft. long, 5 ft. high, and 4 ft. wide at 
$1.67 a cord? 7. How many acres in a rectangular field 
402 rds. 1 yd. long and 121 yds. wide? 8. Find the cost of 
carpeting a room 18 ft. long and 15 ft. wide with carpet 27 
in. wide at 75c. a yard, strips to run lengthwise. 9. Make 
and solve a problem to illustrate the method of finding the 
area of a triangle when the lengths of the three sides are 
given. 10. Find the principal which, at 6 per cent., will 
produce $860 in 2 mo. 24 da. 

Pupils' Examination— April 20, 1907. 

(Under Act of March 28, 1902.) 
UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Give the origin of the name Pennsylvania. What led 
Oglethorpe to found a colony in Georgia? 2. Why did 
George III. propose to tax the colonies? 3. Name two serv- 
ices that Benjamin Franklin performed for his country. 4. 
When was the Constitution adopted? Name three promi- 
nent members of the constitutional convention. 5. Give 
two important results of Burgoyne's surrender. 6. Name 
two accessions to the territory of the United States be- 
tween 1840 and 1860. 7. How was the question of slavery 
in Missouri settled? 8. Describe one important battle of 
the Civil War, giving the year of the war in which it oc- 
curred, its locality and result. 9. What were the Alabama 
Claims and how were they settled? 10. Mention two im- 
portant historical events of the year 1906. 
PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. What are the organs of breathing? 2. Describe the 
structure of the muscles. 3. Why should all food be thor- 
oughly masticated? 4. Explain how the intestines are 
concerned in digestion. 5. Trace fully the blood from the 
aorta to the vena cava. 6. Name the bones of the head. 
/. What is the function of the lymphatic circulation? 8. 
What effect has alcohol upon muscular control? 9. How 
would you remove a cinder from your eye? 10. What can 



pupils' examinations, 1907. 39 

you say of the healthfulness of milk and ice water as bever- 
ages? 

READING. 
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Wliat resemblance exists between a canal and a strait? 
Give two examples of each. 2. Describe the climate and 
rainfall of the states on the Pacific Slope. 3. Locate five 
cities in Ohio of more than 20,000 inhabitants each, and 
name one important industry carried on in each. 4. Ex- 
plain why the days and nights are not always of equal 
length. At what times of the year- are they of equal length? 
5. Name ten countries of South America and the capital of 
each. 6. Give the shortest route of a vessel sailing from 
New Orleans to Hamburg. 7. Tell what you can of the 
location and climate of Panama. Why is Panama of inter- 
est to all Americans at the present time? 8. To what river 
system does the Ohio river belong? How far is the Ohio 
river navigable? 9. Name two Asiatic and one African 
colony of Great Britain. 10. What and where is each of 
the following: Hong-Kong, Vesuvius, Puget, Niger, King- 
ston? 

GRAMMAR. 

1. What is a phrase? How are phrases classified with 
respect to use? 2. When is a verb copulative? Redund- 
ant? Emphatic? Irregular? 3. Write sentences contain- 
ing the possessive plural of each of the following: Wolf, 
alto, country, I, you. 4. Give a synopsis of the verb "to 
sink" in the indicative mode, active voice, first person, 
singular number; in the infinitive mode. 5. In the follow- 
ing, what part of speech is each of the words in black 
type: Not one of us can tell what the future has in store 
for him? 6. Write sentences using "that" as an adjective, 
a pronoun and a conjunction; "there" as an adverb of place 
and an expletive. 7. What kind of a sentence is the fol- 
lowing? Classify its clauses. "Do not waste your time by 
wishing and dreaming, but work earnestly at whatever you 
can find to do." 8. Give the syntax of to do and whatever 
in the sentence in the previous question. Parse the words 



40 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

in black type in that sentence. 9-10. Write a short letter 
to the editor of your favorite magazine or paper, telling 
him why you like the same. 

ARITHMETIC. 

.00087 
1. Find the value of % of . 



3 7 

— + — 
8 20 

2. A rug 6 yards long and 5 yards wide is placed in the 
center of a room TY2 yards long by 6 yards wide. What 
will be the cost of painting the uncovered floor space at 
iVz cents a square foot? 3. If you invest $3360 in railway 
stock at 84, how many shares will you buy, and what will 
be your income if the stock pays 4%? 4. How can you find 
the area of a circle when its circumference is given? 5. On 
an average, 5000 copies of a daily paper are sold per day. 
Reckoning three sheets for each copy, how many reams of 
paper would be required for use in the present month, not 
including the Sunday edition? 6. A rope 80 feet long 
reaches from the base of one building to the top of another 
building, 30 feet high, on the opposite side of the street. 
How wide is the street? 7. What is a ratio? A propor- 
tion? Make (but do not solve) a problem in simple pro- 
portion. 8. Find the cost of 10 planks, each 15 feet long, 
16 inches wide and 3% inches thick, at $2.25 per hundred. 
9. What sum of money will produce $1830 in 2 years, 6 
months, at 5%? 10. A steamer arrives at London, 0° 0' 
longitude, at 3:30 p. m. The fact is telegraphed without 
loss of time to Halifax, 63° 35' west. What time is it when 
the message is received? 

WRITING. 

For this branch examiners will grade the manuscript in 
orthography. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

(10 credits.) 

1. Write words illustrating long 0, short Italian a, long 
00, hard g, long y, and short o. (10 credits.) 2. Write 
sentences containing the correct use of the following 



pupils' examinations, 1907. 41 

words; Indict, surplus, chasm, tedious, arid. (10 credits.) 
3. Write a rule for the use of the hyphen. Which of 
the following would you write with a hyphen? Today, 
mantelpiece, daughter in law, schoolmate, selfmade? (10 
credits.) 4. Define and illustrate prefix, derivative word 
and dissyllable. (10 credits.) 5. Spell correctly each of 
the following words to be pronounced by the examiner: 
Pencil, shyly, canteen, demolish; follies, reprisal, traitor, 
abyss, acid; rarity, concrete, odorous, morgue, pallid; sen 
tin el, maritime, Chesapeake; treachery, domineer, chron^ 
icle. (60 credits.) 

Pupils' Examination — May 11, 1907. 

(Under Act of March 28, 1902.) 
PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Explain each of the following in connection with the 
skin: Cutis, cuticle, mucous membrane. 2. Give the 
structure and use of the ligaments; tendons. 3. Trace the 
course of the blood through the heart. V/hat prevents the 
blood from flowing backward? 4. Whose bones break 
easier, yours or your grandfather's? Why? 5. Name some 
foods you would eat to produce fat. Why is milk a de- 
sirable food? 6. Of what use to the body is exercise? 7. 
Give the location and use of the salivary glands. 8. Men- 
tion the organs of which the nervous system consists. 9. 
Locate the following: Eustachian tube, iris, fibula, biceps, 
gastric juice. 10. Why is alcohol always injurious? Is 
coffee a harmful stimulant? Why, or why not? 
GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Which is greater, the polar or the equatorial diameter 
of the earth? Why? 2. Locate five important cities of the 
world that are situated on islands. 3. Why do the largest 
rivers of Ohio flow in a southerly direction? 4. A certain 
city is 125° from the North Pole. In what zone is it? 5. 
Name the largest and smallest state in the Union and tell 
for what industries each is noted. 6. Explain the follow- 
ing terms: Isotherm, metropolis, capital, breakwater, 
steppes. 7. What is a penal colony? Name two and tell 
to what country each belongs. 8. Locate important cod. 



42 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

oyster and salmon fisheries of North America. 9. State 
one feature in which the government of Great Britain re- 
sembles our own; one in which it differs. 10. Where is 
each of the following: District of Columbia, Everglades, 
Yosemite Valley, Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, Yellowstone 
Park? 

ARITHMETIC. 
1. If your father buys a house and lot for $4000 with the 
understanding that he is to pay Vz of the amount in cash 
and the remainder at the end of 1 year and 2 months with 
interest at 5%, how much does he then owe? 2. If the 
bookseller of your town buys his pencils for $2.16 a gross 
and sells them to the school children for 3 cents apiece, 
how much money does he make on a box containing 5 
gross? 3. A dealer sold an automobile for $90 less than 
the marked price, thereby throwing off 12%. At what price 
did he sell the automobile? 4. If a cow, tied to a stake, 
can graze over half an acre, what is the length of the rope 
by which she is tethered? 5. Last November there were 
two cloudy days to every 3 clear days. How many days in 
the month were clear? 6. When shingles cost !p4./'5 per 
thousand.what will be the cost of shingling a sloping roof, 
each slope being 34' by 18', if 1000 shingles are allowed to 
125 sq. ft.? 7. How is the principal found when the time, 
rate and interest are known? 8. A hotel is insured for % 
of its value, at 1%% premium, and the premium amounts 
to $250. What is the value of the hotel? 9. If a regiment 
of 1000 soldiers consumes 12,000 pounds of bread in 15 
days, how many pounds will a regiment of 1250 men con- 
sume in 30 days? 10. If the entire surface of a cubical box 
is 5046 sq. in., what is its edge? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. When and by whom was the Mississippi river discov- 
ered and explored? The Hudson river? 2. How could 
you have traveled from New York to Boston in 1776? 
About how many years later were railroads introduced into 
the United States? 3. Tell what you can of British efforts 
to enforce the Stamp Act. 4. Why do you remember four 
of the following in connection with the Revolution: Gen. 



pupils' examinations, 1907. 43 

Burgoyne, Benedict Arnold, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, 
Robert Morris, Anthony Wayne? 5. Why were the Alien 
and Sedition Laws unjust? 6. What brought about the 
War of 1812? How did this war result? 7. By whom was 
Texas largely settled? Why was there objection in the 
North to its annextion? 8. What was the outcome of the 
battle of Gettysburg? Appomattox? 9. Write briefly upon 
the financial condition of the South at the close of the Civil 
War. 10. Where, and upon what occasion, was President 
McKinley assassinated? 

WRITING. 

In this branch examiners will grade the manuscript in 
orthography. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. What is a primitive word? A derivative word? Form 
one derivative word from each of the following: Desire, 
Ohio, rogue, progress. 2. Illustrate in some word the cor- 
rect use of each of the following: Hyphen, macron, pri- 
mary accent, secondary accent, prefix. 3. Write with the 
proper diacritical marks four different sounds of the letter 
a. How many sounds has the letter o? 4. Give a rule of 
spelling for the formation of the plural of monkey; a rule 
for the formation of the past tense of benefit. 5. Spell 
correctly each of the following words to be pronounced by 
the examiner: Abbreviate, lettuce, anniversary, circular, 
gallop, rowdies, blonde, foretell, gauging, delinquent, mis- 
spell, synonym, frolicsome, peaceable, symmetry, Theodore 
Roosevelt, visible, coerce, fascinate, epileptic. 
READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 
GRAMMAR. 

1. What grammatical relation exists between a relative 
pronoun and its antecedent? Name all the simple relative 
pronouns. 2. Write the principal parts of the following 
verbs: Sew, ought, bid, choose and fly. 3. Name three 
classes of conjunctions. The use of which class or classes 
makes a sentence compound? 4. Write a sentence con- 
taining a clause used as an adjective modifier; a sentence 
containing a predicate infinitive. 5. What parts of speech 



44 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

may a noun modify? What parts of speech may modify a 
noun? 6. What is a participle? Illustrate four ways in 
which participles may be used. 7-8. Write a letter to one 
of your friends telling him (or her) why you wish to re- 
ceive a high-school education. 9. If you wish to go with 
me you will have to ask permission of your father. Point 
out, and state the use of, all phrases in the above sentence. 
10. Parse the words in black type in the following: There 
is not a room in the house fit to live in. 



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Pupils' Examinations. 

Selected Examination Questions submitted by county 
Boards of Examiners for Special and Subdistrict Gradua- 
tion, under sections 4029-1, 2, 3 and 4, commonly called the 
"Boxwell Law." 

Clermont County — 1900. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Define analysis, synthesis, infinitive, copula and con. 
junction. 2. Write two sentences, one of which shall con- 
tain an adjective element of the third class, and the other 
an objective element of the third class. 3. Correct: Is 
James as old as me? John had ought to attend school. 
The dog laid down. 4. Write a sentence with an Infinitive 
used as a noun, and one with an infinitive used as an ad- 
verb. 5. Write sentences showing three ways in which a 
noun may be in the absolute case. 6. Write the plural of 
son-in-law, ox cart, man-servant, Miss Brown and nine. 7. 
Give the principal parts of loose, sit, teach, lose and drink. 
8. Use in a sentence the possessive plural of son-in-law, a 
compound passive participle, and infinitive used adjectively 
and laid as a participle. 9. Analyze: Errors like straws, 
upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls 
must dive below. 10. Parse words in black type in the 
above sentence. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Name and locate the zones of calms. What are trade 
winds? Give their direction in the northern hemisphere. 
2. What is the snow line? What is its height at the equa- 
tor? 3. Name five bays on the coast of Maine. 4. How 
would you go by water from Buffalo, N. Y., to Jackson, 
Miss.? 5. Name the townships of Clermont county and 
bound the one in which you live. 6. What states of South 
America have no sea coast? Bound Bolivia. 7. Name five 
states of the Turkish peninsula, and what gulf almost di- 
vides Greece into two parts? 8. What three large islands 
are crossed by the equator? 9. Name five subdivisions: of 



46 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Australia and give the capital of each. 10. What and 
where are Pretoria, Tananarivo, Natal, Nephon, Crimea? 
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 

1. Define: Ligament, pericardium, synovia, patella, mor- 
phine. 2. What is saliva? How is it secreted? What is 
its function? 3. Of what kinds of matter is the nervous 
system composed? What is the function of each? 4. To 
what is the life-giving principle in the atmosphere due? 
What becomes of it in the body? 5. Tell what you can 
about the heart. 6. How many teeth? Name the different 
classes. 7. What portion of the eye brings the rays of light 
to a focus on the retina? What is the cause of nearsight- 
edness? Of farsightedness? 8. How many bones compose 
the spine? 9-10. Give an account of the care of the body 
under the following: Clothing, food, bathing, drink. 
UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Name five of the original thirteen colonies, with place 
and date of settlement of each. 2. Name five statesmen 
connected with the Revolutionary period, with an account 
of services of one. 3. What was the Constitutional Con- 
vention? When and where did it meet? 4. Mention the 
different portions of territory acquired by the United 
States, and tell how each was obtained. 5. Who was Gen- 
eral Wolfe? Cyrus Field? Horace Greeley? Israel Put- 
nam? John Paul Jones? 6. Name five Union and five Con- 
federate generals of the Civil war. 7. What were the 
Alien and Sedition laws? 8. What Presidents had been 
soldiers? 9. What President was impeached? What body 
has power to try all cases of impeachment? 10. Give 
events connected with 1676, 1755, 1803, 1861, 1876. 
ARITHMETIC. 

1. Add .34 yard, 1.07 feet and 8.92 inches. 2. A man had 
$300. After he had spent $225, what per cent, did he have 
left? 3. An agent receives $1323.54 to cover cost of goods 
and commission at 8%. What was his commission? 4. 
The proceeds of a note discounted at a bank for 60 days 
at 6% were $197.90. What was the face of the note? 5. 
The cost of insuring a house worth $4500 for y^ of its value 
was $32.75; the cost of the policy was $1.25. What was the 



COUNTY examiners' LISTS. 47 

per cent, of insurance? 6. If William's services are worth 
$152^ a month when he labors nine hours a day, what 
ought he receive for 4^ months when he labors 12 hours 
a day? 7. I buy $200 worth of goods, y^ to be paid now, 
^ in 5 months, the rest in 10 months. Find the average 
time of payment. 8. Find the side of a cube equal to a 
mass 288 feet long, 216 feet broad and 48 feet high. 9. 
Find the area of a triangle whose sides are 13, 14 and 15 
feet. 10. How many feet in an inch board 12 feet 6 inches 
long, 1 foot 3 inches wide at one end and 11 inches wide at 
the other end? 

PENMANSHIP. 
No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears. 
No gem that twinkling hangs from beauty's ears. 
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn, 
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn. 
Shine with such luster as the tear that flows 
Down virtue's manly cheek for other's woes. 

Clinton County — 1901. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1, Divide 2-13 of 5^^ by 7-6 of 41, and express the answer 
as a decimal. 2. Divide 3 sq. rd., 20 sq. yd., 4 sq. ft, 29 sq. 
in. by 18. 3. Find 3-10 per cent of 3-10 of $1,500. What 
per cent of 9.6 is 40% of 30? 4. Half of A's money is equal 
to % of B's, and A has $18 more than B. How much has 
each? 5. In what time will $460 amount to $540.05 at 5 per 
cent? 6. If 12 men can build a wall 30 feet long, 6 feet high 
and 3 feet thick in 15 days by working 12 hours per day, in 
what time will 60 men build a wall 300 feet long, 8 feet 
high and 6 feet thick, working 8 hours per day? 7. A man 
invested 8-5 of his capital in bank stock, % of the remain- 
der in real estate and had $4,260 left. What was his capi- 
tal? 8. Find the face of a 90 days' draft that cost $850 
purchased at a discount of 1% per cent, interest iVz per 
cent. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Give a complete classification of the noun by diagram. 
2. Write a simple, complex and compound sentence. 3. 



18 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Write a sentence containing a verb in each of the five 
modes. 4. Use in a sentence a clause as subject, a phrase 
as predicate and a phrase as object. 5. Define synthesis, 
synopsis, inflection and participle. 6. How many elements 
may a sentence contain? Illustrate each element with a 
sentence. 7. How is the possessive case of nouns formed? 
8. Diagram: Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays 
to virtue. War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, 
kings would not play at. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Name the states of the Union that touch the great 
lakes and give the capital of each. 2. Follow the parallel 
of latitude on which we live around the world, naming the 
divisions it crosses. 3. Name the Republics of Europe and 
capitals of each. Name the absolute monarchies of Eu- 
rope and the capital of each. 4. Name (a) mountain sys- 
tem in Italy; (b) river in northern part; (c) celebrated 
volcano; (d) a leading product. 5. Name the cities you 
would pass in following the Missouri river from its source 
to where it empties into the Mississippi. 6. Bound the 
United States by parallels and meridians. 7. What bodies 
of water form the following peninsulas: Iberian, Crimea, 
Arabia, Scandinavian? 8. Locate and tell what the fol- 
lowing are: Yucatan, Luzon, St. Helena, Singapore. 
PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Of what does physiology consist? 2. Name the bones 
of the skull. 3. Name and illustrate three kinds of joints. 
4. Name and locate the valves of the heart. 5. Of what 
does the blood consist? Where is it purified? 6. Name 
the parts of the brain. Of what does the spinal cord con- 
sist? 7. Of what is the nervous system composed? Name 
two classes of nerves, and describe each. 8. What causes 
the air in a room to become impure? Define stimulant, and 
give name of one. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Name the thirteen original colonies and tell when and 
where each was first settled. 2. What was done by each 
of the following men: De Soto, Ponce de Leon, Roger 
Williams, William Penn, Abraham Lincoln and Daniel 



COUNTY EXAMINERS LISTS. 49 

Webster? 3. When were negro slaves first brought to this 
country? Who were the Pilgrims? What was the Mis- 
souri Compromise? 4. The Civil War: (a) Date, (b) 
causes, (c) six battles with their dates, (d) four generals 
on each side, (e) result. 5. Why are the following days 
national holidays: May 30, February 22, July 4, December 
25? 6. Give date of following: Revolutionary War, Mexi- 
can War, Spanish American War. Name the 3d, 7th, 10th 
and 18th Presidents. 7. Who is President of United 
States? What is his salary? To what political party does 
he belong? Who is Governor of Ohio? What is his sal- 
ary? For how many years is the Governor elected? The 
President? 8. Why are the following dates important in 
United States history: 1850, 1776, 1733, 1492, 1863, 1832, 
1819, 1803? 

Crawford County — 1901. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Name the vowels. 2. Mark a so as to indicate all of 
its sounds, and write words to illustrate. 3. What three 
guides have we for pronunciation? Which is the safest? 

4. Write the proper abbreviations for West Indies, United 
States Navy, subjunctive, postscript, Maine, hogshead, the 
same company, and before noon. 5. Spell fars, qual, klen, 
despar, compar, frat, kutikle, kemist, disgiz. 6. Mark the 
following words so as to clearly indicate tl^eir proper pro- 
nunciation: Lodge, what, cent, guest, do, pur, done, flaw, 
class, deign, caprice, and scorn. 7. Define tiny, finance, 
horizon, ancient, quotient, obstinate, luxury, novice, minu- 
end, syntax, and equinox. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. Write in words the following number, 6253971438267. 
Write in Arabic notation two billion ten thousand andten. 
2. Multiply the sum of 148 and 56 by their difference and 
divide the product by 23. 3. What would IT. 6 cwt. 4 lb. 2 
oz. of flour cost at %e. a lb.? 4. What will a pile of wood, 
20 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 6 ft. high cost at $2.25 per cord? 

5. B has $1,600, % of B's plus $400 equals 4-3 of C's. How 
much has C? 6. From .25 da. substract .8 hr. and .5 min. 



50 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

7. A dealer sold two horses for $150 each; on one he gained 
25 per cent and on the other he lost 25 per cent. Did he 
gain or lose by the transaction? How much? 8. A note 
of $320 was given August 3, 1893, and paid yesterday. Find 
the amount due, simple interest at 6 per cent. 9. $1,000. 
Bucyrus, Ohio, May 2, 1882. Ninety days after date, I 
promise to pay J. A. Mulford, or order, one thousand dol- 
lars for value received. S. S. S. Discounted June 16, 1882, 
at 6 per cent. Find when due, time of discount, bank dis- 
count and proceeds of this note. 10. How many acres in a 
road 11/^ miles long and 57% ft. wide? 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Name ten counties in Ohio and the county seat of each. 
2. Bound Crawford county and name the townships. 3. 
Name the five great powers of Europe and the capital of 
each. 4. Name the zones and give the width of each. 5. 
Of what countries are the following cities the capitals: 
Sucre, Lisbon, Stockholm, Brussels, Berne, Vienna, Fez, 
Algiers, and Mourzouk. 6. Name the principal mountain 
systems of North and South America, Africa and Asia. 7. 
Define latitude, longitude, volcano, mountain, earthquake, 
plateau and atmosphere. 8. What and where are the fol- 
lowing: Shasta, Niger, Caracas, Aral, Lyons, Orkney and 
Corsica. 

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 

1. Of what use is the skeleton? Name three natural di- 
visions of the bones of the skeleton. 2. How are bones 
nourished? 3. Why is bathing important to health? When 
should one bathe? Of what value is soap? 4. What is 
meant by digestion? 5. Where is the liver situated, and 
what office does it perform? What effect has alcohol on 
the liver? 6. Where would you compress a bleeding artery 
to stop its flow? Where a vein? 7. What is the dia- 
phragm, and what office does it fulfill? 8. Define coagula- 
tion and state its use. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Write at least ten lines on the biography of Columbus. 

2. State the causes that led to the American Revolution. 

3. Write an account of Arnold's treason. 4. Describe the 



■ COUNTY EXAMINERS LISTS. 51 

annexation of Texas. 5. What was the attitude of Eng- 
land toward the United States during the Civil War? 6. 
What great territory was purchased in 1867, and what price 
was paid for it? 7. In what battle and by what commander 
were the words, "Don't give up the ship," used? 8. What 
was accomplished by the late Civil War? 

Erie County— 1901. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Mark all the different sounds of a and e. 2. Give 
five different places where capital letters should be used. 
3. Give complete analysis of the word "unction." 4. What 
distinction between incite and insight; relic and relict; 
satire and satyr; prophesy and prophecy; poplar and popu- 
lar; populace and populous? 5. Correct the spelling if 
necessary: Dogerel, guwgaw, flacid, hypocracy, hairloom, 
Indelible, inferred, jaguar, kerosehe, maelstrom. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. What is a unit? Common fraction? Decimal frac- 
tion? Mixed number? Give example of each one. 2. Mul- 
tiply 16% by the sum of 1 2-3 and 7-12, and divide the pro- 
duct by .025. 3. A man owning 4-5 of a ship sells A 1-4 of 
his share, and then sells B the remainder for $3,000. At 
this rate, what is the value of the ship? 4. Find the prin- 
cipal which will yield $336 interest in 3 years and 6 months 
at 8 per cent. 5. A cistern, whose bottom is 5 feet square, 
contains 250 cubic feet of water. What is the depth? 6. 
A and B rent a pasture for $14.40. A puts in 3 cows for 7 
days, and B 3 cows for 9 days. How much should each 
pay? 7. The value of the property in a certain village is 
$150,000, and said village contains 40 polls, taxed at $1.25 
per head. If a tax of $800 is to be raised, what rate must 
be levied on the property, in mills? 8. Extract the square 
root of 2304. 9. Bought 25 shares of N. Y. Central at ^Vb 
per cent below par, brok. % per cent, and sold them at 4l^ 
per cent above par, brok. % per cent. Find my gain. 10. 
The long, of A is 45 degrees, 23 minutes, 45 seconds west, 
and of B 63 degrees, 46 minutes and 45 seconds west. Find 
difference in time. 



o2 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Define geography. 2. In which zone do we live? 3. 
What mountain system in the eastern part of the United 
States? In the western part of the United States? 4. 
Name the largest State in the Union. The smallest. 5. 
What large sea between Europe and Africa? 6. Locate 
the Transvaal and Orange River Republics. 7. What large 
island east of Africa? To which country does it belong? 
8. Through what countries of South America does the 
equator pass? 9. Name the New England States. 10. 
Name the largest city of Ohio. Describe the Scioto river. 
GRAMMAR. 

1. What grammar have you studied, and how far did 
you get? Define etymology and syntax. 2. Give an out- 
line of the noun and give a definition ofr case. 3. What 
cases are capitalized words in the following: I did not 
know his NAME was SAMUEL. Where is JOHN? I de- 
sire to be a TEACHER? 4. Define personal and relative 
pronouns. 5. Parse capitalized words: I know WHAT 
he said. There is the man WHOSE house was burned. 
WHOM do you take me to be? 6. Give two copulative, 
two transitive and two passive verbs. 7, Give a synopsis 
of the verb "see" in indicative mode. 8. Analyze the fol- 
lowing: How many quarts are there in a gallon? 
PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Give some reasons why you study physiology. 2. 
Name the bones of the upper extremities. 3. How many 
nervous systems are there? Name them. 4. Give the three 
general classes of food and a type of each. 5. What is 
the normal temperature of the body? How often do we 
breathe under ordinary circumstances in a minute? 6. 
What is a tendon? A ligament? Give use of each. 7. 
Give the parts of a tooth; also the number in the first set. 

8. Into how many parts is the brain divided? Name them. 

9. How many valves has the heart? Name them and give 
their use. 10. You may give the effect of the excessive 
use of alcohol upon the liver as discussed in the text-book 
which you studied. 



COUNTS' EXAMINERS LISTS. 53 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Name an Italian, an Englishman, a Frenchman snd a 
Spaniard making discoveries in America, and tell what 
each discovered and where. 2. Name the first five perma- 
nent settlements of the United States, and tell in which 
State each is located. 3. Who were the following: Walter 
Raleigh, Pedro Menendez, Balboa, Roger Williams, Peter 
Stuyvesant, John Smith, William Penn, George Calvert, 
John Carver, James Qglethrope? 4. Give causes of the 
Revolution and name two battles and two generals on 
each side in this war. 5. Who were the first five Presi- 
dents of the United States? 6. In whose administration 
was the Louisiana Purchase made; from whom and for 
what sum? 7. What war, besides the Revolutionary, was 
fought between Great Britain and the United States? 8. 
Who is now President of the United States? Vice-Presi- 
dent of the United States? Governor of Ohio? 9. Name 
five events in the history of the United States concerning 
slavery. 10. What Presidents were assassinated? Who 
then became President? 



Fayette County— 1901. 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Define subvocal and aspirate and give three examples 
of each. 2. Give the substitutes in the following words: 
son, feint, pique, and was. 3. Write and define words 
homophonous with pole, cite and sent. 4. Indicate the 
proper pronunciation of chyle, cupboard and bellows. 5. 
Write the plurals of leaf, wagon-load, fife, lady, k, and 
monkey. 6. Write the possessive plural of man, lady and 
woman. 7. Add the sufiix, ing, to fret, rain, omit, consent. 
8. Define the following words according to the meaning 
given by the prefixes and suffixes: friendless, beggar, 
eatable, leaflet, replant, postscript, benediction, maledic- 
tion, semitone, and monotone. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. One city is in longitude 10° 18' 29" E, and another m 
80° 3' 46" W. When it is 5 o'clock a. m. at the former 
place, what time is it at the latter? 2. Express 654 divided 



54 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

by 16^ as a decimal. 3. A wholesale merchant sold goods 
at 20 and 12i^% off, and received $700 for them. What 
was the list price? 4. A drover sold hogs for 12626.40, 
thereby gaining 12%. What did they cost? 5. The in- 
terest on $800 for 2 years 6 months was $120. What was 
the rate of interest? 6. In a co-partnership A contributed 
$500 for 8 months, B $450 for 6 months and C $300 for 5 
months. They gained $246. How should it be divided? 7. 
Divide the sum of iy^ and 2^ by their difference. 8. A 
square field contains 47 acres and 49 square rods. Find 
the cost of fencing it at 662^^ per rod. 9. How many bar- 
rels of water will a cylindrical tank contain which is 5 
feet in diameter and 4 feet deep? 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Copy the following sentences and underscore the 
abstract and collective nouns: (a) There is hardly any 
place, or any company, where you may not gain knowledge 
if you please, (b) His army is a ragged multitude of 
hinds and peasants, rude and merciless. 2. Make sen- 
tences of your own containing the following phrases: 
"North American continent," "in front of," "Isthmus of 
Suez," "against my will." 3. What is voice? Give exam- 
ple. 4. Write a sentence containing a relative pronoun; 
define relative pronoun and antecedent. 5. Decline the 
third person pronoun, he, she, it. 6. Diagram: "Lady 
Evelyn is a tall, somewhat good-looking, elderly lady, who 
wears her silver white hair in old-fashioned curls." 7. 
With respect to use, sentences are divided into four classes. 
Name them by writing an example of each. 8. Parse 
words in capitals: (a) WHATEVER IS is right, (b) He 
is an OLD friend of OURS, (c) I speak as to wise MEN; 
JUDGE YE WHAT I say. 9. Give the principal parts of 
the verbs: stride, swear, tear, work, chide, clothe, and 
fling. 10. Name the tenses, the modes, the adjectives, the 
participles. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Define geography and name its three branches. 2. 
Name the races of men, and tell what part or parts of the 
world each inhabits. 3. Define latitude and longitude. 4. 



COUNTY EXAMINERS LISTS. 55 

Name the five most populous countries of Europe. What 
is the capital city of each? 5. Give the latitude and longi- 
tude of any three or more large cities. 6. Describe the 
Gulf Stream. 7. Draw a map of Ohio and place upon it 
four rivers and four large cities. 8. Define large circles 
and small circles, giving an example of each. 9. Locate 
Madagascar, Borneo, Luzon, Cuba. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Give the divisions of the human skeleton and name 
the bones in one division. 2. Name the parts of the ali- 
mentary canal. 3. Briefly describe the processes of diges- 
tion. 4. Describe the skin and give its functions. 5. Give 
the reasons why food should be cooked. 6. Classify the 
permanent teeth. 7. Describe the circulation of the blood. 
8. Name the nerves of special sense and describe the spinal 
nerves. 9. Name the principal narcotics and give effects 
of alcohol upon the nervous system. 10. Name the coats 
of the eye, the bones of the ear and membranes that invest 
the vital organs. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Give a brief account of the discovery of America. 2. 

(a) Name an English discoverer, (b) A French discoverer, 
(c) Tell what each discovered. 3. (a) Who was De Soto? 

(b) Cortez? (c) John Smith? 4. Tell how Rhode Island 
was founded. 5. Give a brief account of the first battle of 
the American Revolution.- 6. Name the Presidents who 
died while in ofiice and tell the manner of their death. 7. 
Who were Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark? 8. Name 
three great battles of the Civil war, giving dates. 9. Give 
a brief sketch of General Grant. 10. Name the thirteen 
original colonies. 

Hancock County — 1901. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. How long would it take a person to count a million 
silver dollars, at the rate of 100 a minute and working 8 
hours a day? 2. What is the length of a degree on a circle 
whose diameter is 18 feet? 3. The face of a draft is $400; 
time 30 days; interest 6%; discount ^%. Find the cost. 



56 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

4. From 10 bushels subtract the sum of 3.64 bushels, 9-16 
bushels and 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 6.52 quarts. 5. A note of 
$125, made January 4, 1887, is paid May 3, 1888, with in- 
terest at 5% per annum. Find the amount paid. 6. If I 
lose 10% by selling goods at 184 a yard, for what must 
they be sold to gain 20%? 7. Mr. Jones insured his house, 
worth $48,000, for one year for 5^ of its value, at 54%. 
What would the insurance company lose if the house 
should burn? 8. Five quarts equal what decimal of a peck? 
9. Extract the equare root of 182.25. 10. At 10^ a quart, 
what are 3 bushels, 1 peck and 5 quarts of chestnuts 
worth? 

GRAMMAR. 

NOTE. — Underline words required in these sentences. 

1. Write a sentence containing a noun used as the sub- 
ject of a sentence. 2. Write a sentence containing a noun 
used as the predicate of a sentence. 3. Write a sentence 
containing a noun in the nominative case by apposition. 
4. Write a sentence containing a noun used as the direct 
object of a verb. 5. Write a sentence containing a noun 
used as the predicate after an infinitive. What is the case 
of this predicate now? 6. Write a sentence containing a 
noun used as the object of a preposition. 7. Write a sen- 
tence containing a noun in the objective case by apposi- 
tion. 8. Write a sentence having "what" used as a relative 
pronoun. 9. Write a sentence having "what" used as an 
interrogative pronoun. 10. Write a sentence having "what" 
used as an adjective. 11. Write a sentence having "what" 
used as a relative adjective. 12. Write a sentence having 
a conjunctive adverb. 13. Write a sentence having a rela- 
tive adverb. 14. Write a sentence having a co-ordinate 
conjunction. 15. Write a sentence having a subordinate 
conjunction. 16. Write a sentence containing an infinitive 
used as the subject of a verb. 17. Write a sentence con- 
taining an infinitive used as the object of a verb. 18. 
Write a compound sentence. 19. Write a complex sen- 
tence. 20. Write a declarative or assertive sentence. 21. 
Write an interrogative sentence. 22. Write an imperative 
sentence. 23. Write an exclamatory sentence. 24. Write 
an expression containing an interjection. 25. Write a sen- 



COUNTY EXAMINERS LISTS. ■ 57 

tence in whicli you use your own name. 26. Diagram the 
the following sentences: (a) Near the banks of the "bonny 
Doon" stands the little clay-built cottage in which Robert 
Burns was born, (b) It is doubtful whether the boys un- 
derstand what I mean, (c) We cherish the hope that he 
will return, (d) There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, (e) We 
know what master laid thy keel, what workmen wrought 
thy ribs of steel. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Where is the Yukon river? For what is the Yukon 
region noted? 2. England and Labrador are in the same 
latitude. Why so great a difference in their climate? 
What makes the western coast of the United States 
warmer than the eastern coast? 3. Give the leading occu- 
pations and productions of Ohio. 4. Why do the New Eng- 
land States excel in the manufacture of certain articles? 
What are the leading articles manufactured in the New 
England States? 5. Write five lines giving the important 
facts about California. 6. Draw an outline map of the 
United States, showing the chief river systems and moun- 
tain highlands. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Describe the eyes as (a) coats, (b) humors, (c) lens, 
(d) iris, (e) pupil. 2. What is coagulation? Give its use. 
3. Name the juices that aid in digestion and tell where 
each is secreted. 4. Describe the arteries and veins. 5. 
Name some of the evil effects of alcohol on the human 
system. 6. Locate the cilia and give their use. The villi 
and their use. 7. Name the three divisions of the brain 
and give use of each division. 8. In case a child swallowed 
poison, what would you do? 9. Describe the red and white 
corpuscles of the blood and give use of each. 10. Describe 
the heart as to (a) shape, (b) size, (c) location, (d) cover- 
ing, (e) lining, (f) cavities. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

NOTE. — Penmanship will be graded from this list. 
1. Tell where, when and by whom Massachusetts, Vir- 
ginia, New York. Georgia and Florida were settled. 2. 



58 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Give time, cause, leading events and results of the French 
and Indian war. 3. Why is the surrender of Burgoyne 
considered a great event in the Revolutionary war? 4. 
For what are Sumpter, Marion and Pickens noted in the 
Revolutionary war? 5. Tell of the Missouri Compromise. 
6. For what is Stephen A. Douglass especially noted? 7. 
Who was Dred Scott? For what is Chief Justice Taney 
noted? For what is John Brown noted? 8. For what did 
the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution provide? 
The Fourteenth Amendment? The Fifteenth Amendment? 
9. How does a bill become a law? 

Hardin County— 1901. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. Write a number containing six periods and name the 
periods. Write in Roman notation 117, 1901, 623, 81 and 
93. 2. A certain dividend is 739000; the quotient is 214; 
the remainder 70. What is the divisor? 3. A man bought 
a tract of land 35 rods long and 32 rods wide. What did 
it cost at $60 per acre? 4. How many seconds in the month 
of February, 1876? 5. Find the G. C. D. of 2145 and 3471. 
Find the L. C. M. of 13, 29, 52 and 87. 6. Write an example 
of each kind of fraction. Multiply one hundredth by one 
ten-thousandths. Divide .102048 by 3189. 7. I had $800 
in bank and drew out 30% of it. How much had I left? 8. 
Find the amount of $500 at 6% from March 5, 1898, to the 
present time. 9. Two men go into partnership. A puts in 
$800 and B $1200; they gain $600. What is each man's 
share? 10. Find the unknown term of the following: 
68 : what : : 51 : 27 ? (Work must be on your manuscript.) 
GRAMMAR. 

1. Give case of nouns and pronouns in the following sen- 
tences: (a) John, I saw you give Mary your book, (b) 
Chasing rainbows is a favorite occupation of some people. 
2. Give mode and tense of verbs in the following sentences 
and write the subject of each verb: (a) James wants me 
to buy him a horse if I go to Mr. Martin's sale, (b) If you 
would have the questions answered correctly, answer them 
yourself. 3. Tell what the adjectives and adverbs in the 



COUNTY EXAMINERS' LISTS. 59 

following sentences modify: (a) Very small children 
should retire quite early, (b) Reverently we should bow 
our heads, (c) Many people will attend church tomorrow, 
(d) "An idle brain is the devil's workshop." 4. Diagram 
the following sentences: (a) The bandit tried to kill the 
express agent, (b) The farmer has finished sowing oats, 
(c) The Vice-President killed a very large mountain lion 
while he was in Colorado. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. What are the three movements of the sea and what 
is the cause of tides? 2. What are deltas? Give three 
large rivers that have deltas. 3. What are great and small 
circles? Give an example of each. 4. What is the area 
of the earth? How much is land and how much water? 
5. What is a strait? What is a harbor? 6. What grand 
divisions in the eastern and western continents? 7. Name 
two rivers in each of the following: South America, Europe, 
Asia, Africa and Australia. 8. Name a strait touching each 
of the following: South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and 
Australia. Also a cape in each. 9. Name the five great 
lakes in the order of their size, beginning with the largest. 
10. Name four bays on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific 
coast of the United States. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Name the bones of the skull. 2. Give two differences 
in cutis and cuticle. 3. What are the different parts of 
the tooth and give two differences in the temporary and 
permanent sets. 4. From what glands does the saliva 
come to the mouth? From what glands does the perspira- 
tion issue? 5. What is the composition of blood and what 
are the organs of circulation? 6. What is the difference 
in inspired and expired air? 7. What is the use of the 
motor and sensory nerves? 8. Name the special senses 
and the nerves that supply two of them. 9. Name the dif- 
ferent parts of the ear and describe the middle ear. 10. 
What and where are the following: Radius, retina, pleura, 
cerebrum and diaphragm? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Where was Columbus born? 2. Who searched for the 
"Fountain of Youth" in Florida? 3. What is the oldest 



60 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

town in the United States? 4. Who discovered the Hudson 
river? 5. Who was the proprietor of Maryland? 6. What 
man led in the settlement of Georgia? 7. What fort is 
erected on the site of old Fort Duquesne? 8. What city 
used to be called New Amster.dam ? 9. Name two generals 
killed at Quebec in the French and Indian war. 10. Who 
was king of England during the Revolution? 11. At what 
place did Burgoyne surrender? 12. Who was the most 
noted foreigner that helped us during the Revolution? 13. 
Who was our first Secretary of the Treasury? 14 In 
whose administration did we purchase Louisiana Terri- 
tory? 15. In whose administration was the war of 1S12? 
16. Who invented the steamboat? 17. Who was "Old 
Rough and Ready"? 18. What English-built Confederate 
ship did us most damage in the Civil war? 19. In whose 
administration was the "Presidential Succession I. aw" 
passed? 20. In whose administration was the Spanish- 
American war? 

Henry County— 1901. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. What is etymology? Define accent. 2. Define root, 
word, prefix and suffix. 3. What is spelling? Phonetic 
spelling? Orthographic spelling? 4. What is an elemen- 
tary sound? 5. Indicate by diacritical marks the vowel 
sounds in the following words: Psalm, fall, rat, move, coop, 
wallet, machine, grass, calf, path, was, fast, master. 
ARITHMETIC. 

1. By counting eggs 4, 6 or 10 at a time a farmer hal 
3 left over in each case. Find the least number he had. 2. 
If ^ of a ship is worth $1200, how much is ^ of it worth? 
3. How much will 1795 bricks cost at $4.75 per M? Solve 
decimally. 4. Find the cost of 3759 lbs. of hay at $7.25 
per ton. Solve decimally. 5. Find the capacity in bushels 
of a bin whose dimensions are 4x6x8 feet. 6. Find the 
simple and the annual interest of $373 for 3 year,-? 7 
months, 15 days, at 8%. 7. Get the true and bank dis- 
count of $590 due in 2 years, 8 months, at 9%. 8. The 
sides of a scalene triangle are 42, 56 and 60 rods. Find 
number of acres. 



COUNTY EXAMINERS LISTS. 61 

GRAMMAR, 

1. (a) Define grammar, (b) Distinguish between analy- 
sis and synthesis. 2. Define and classify each, language 
and sentence. 3. Classify nouns and illustrate each class 
in a sentence. 4. Name, number and define the parts of 
speech. 5. Write sentences containing each part of speech, 
and underscore and number as above. 6. Give rules and 
illustrations for the formation of the plural, nominative 
and possessive forms. 7. Classify verbs and define and 
illustrate each class. 8. Make a list of five vi^ords and use 
each in sentences as two different parts of speech. 9. 
Analyze or diagram: "I will try to be kind to all harmless 
living creatures, and to protect them from cruel usage." 
10. Capitalize, punctuate and parse fully the nouns, pro- 
nouns, adjectives and verbs in the following: "Franklin 
said the reading of one good book aroused him and made 
him what he was." 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Name and locate the oldest town of the United 
States. Name three mountain ranges of the Appalachian 
system. 2. Name two States east of the Mississippi river 
having neither sea nor lake coast. 3. How does con- 
tinental climate differ from insular climate in the same 
latitude? 4. Through what countries of South America 
does the equator pass? 5. Name the three largest cities 
of the United States. Give plausible reasons why they, 
rather than others, are the largest. 6. Give a water route 
from St. Petersburg to St. Paul. 7. What bodies of water 
are united by the Suez Canal? 8. Name six of the articles 
usually shipped from the north to the south by the Missis- 
sippi and its branches. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. State some benefits derived from the study of physi- 
ology. 2. What method or methods did your teacher pur- 
sue in presenting this subject? 3. Name the different 
forms of bones. Why so many different forms? 4. Name 
and locate three bones, three muscles, three nerves. 5. 
Why is the skull oval? What does it contain? 6. Mention 
the special senses and their nerves. 7. Give the divisions 



62 BOXWEI^ -PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

of the alimentary canal. Why called alimentary canal? 8. 
Describe the following: Artery, auricle, coccyx, pupil and 
villus. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 
1. Tell of the state of geographical knowledge in the 
fifteenth century. 2. Give a description of the native races 
of North America and their relations to the early colonists. 
3. Write of Columbus, his trials and successes. 4. Describe 
the settlements at Jamestown and at Plymouth and their 
development. 5. Compare the style of life in the northern 
and southern colonies during the colonial period. 6. What 
were the rival claims of the English and the French in 
America? What did they cause and what were the re- 
sults? 7. Name the colonies that formed the thirteen orig- 
inal States, where first settled and by whom and with what 
motive. 8. Tell of educational interests in the colonies 
before independence. 9. Name the wars in which the 
United States has engaged since the Revolution, giving the 
cause and result of each. 10. Write seventy-five or more 
words on important events that have happened this year. 

Highland County— 1901. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. What is arithmetic? Addition? Numeration? Divi- 
sion? A fraction? 2. The factors of a dividend are 
6X4X8X12X18X4X7 and the factors of the divisor are 
24X48X36X14X2. What is the quotient? 3. Add 22^, 
5 6-7, 8 5-9, 7 8-15, 18 7-63, 11 3-21, 4 5-7. 4. I paid $1330.75 
for a lot of groceries, which was 3% discount from the 
face of the bill. Find amount of bill. 5. If a bookseller 
makes 25^ on an atlas which he sells for $1.75, what is his 
per cent, of profit? 6. Find the amount of $210.25 for 2 
years, 7 months and 20 days, at 7%. 7. A note of $300 is 
dated July 1, 1873. Indorsements: Jan. 1, 1874, $109; July 
1, 1874, $100. What was the amount due January 1, 1875, 
interest at 6%? §. Bought a bill of goods, on 8 months' 
credit, amounting to $260; if money is worth 6%, what sum 
will pay the debt in cash? 9. How many bricks, each 8 
inches long, 4 inches wide, 2.25 inches thick, will be re- 
quired for a wall 120 feet long. 8 feet hieh. 1 foot 6 inches 



COUNTY EXAMINERS' LISTS. 63 

thick? 10. How many yards of carpet Ij^ yards wide will 
cover a floor 18 feet by 15 feet? 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Write three sentences having the verb in active voice 
and change to passive. 2. Name the classes of common 
nouns and define each class. 3. Give two differences be- 
tween personal and relative pronouns. 4. Correct, if neces- 
sary: (a) He will divide the money between you and me. 
(b) None but you and I will go. (c) Neither you or I are 
to be blamed, (d) The boys' hats were blown into the 
lake, (e) He lay the book on the table and laid down to 
rest. 5. Write a sentence having the verb in potential 
mode, passive voice, present perfect tense, third person 
singular number, 6. (a) Write a sentence having a par 
ticiple used as a noun; as an adjective, (b) Write a sen 
tence having an infinitive used as a noun; as an adjective 
7. Decline a personal pronoun in the second person. 8 
Give plural of following nouns: vermin, executor, woman 
man, servant, handfull, penny, Knight-Templar, beau, box 
ox. 9. Diagram: 

The snow had begun in the gloaming, 

And busily all the night 
Had been heaping field and highway 
With a silence deep and white. 

10. Give case of nouns in black type, and person and 
tense of verbs in black type in number nine. 
PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Why should we study physiology? 2. Name the bones 
of the head. 3. About how many muscles are there? What 
are their uses? 4. What is digestion? Assimilation? 5. 
What is ventilation? Why is it necessary? 6. Why should 
alcoholic liquors be avoided? Name several alcoholics. 7. 
What evils arise from rapid eating? 8. What exercise is 
best for children? 9. What are sensory nerves? Motor? 
Spinal nerves? Cranial nerves? 10. Name five narcotic 
poisons. Are tea and coffee wholesome? 
GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Of what uses are latitude and longitude? 2. Trace 
the meridian of Memphis. What is the difference of time 



64 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

between the meridian of Memphis and the seventy-fifth? 
3. Bound West Virginia; give capital and principal prod- 
ucts. 4. What imaginary line divides the mountainous 
from the low regions of Europe? 5. Into what four classes 
are coral formations divided? Describe each. 6. What is 
a border sea? Give five examples. 7. What do you under- 
stand by the phenomena of looming? 8. Name the town- 
ships in Highland county and bound the one in which 
you live. 9. Why should the temperature of the atmos- 
phere decrease with altitude? 10. Why is the rainfall 
heavier in mountainous regions than that of plains? 
UNITED STATES HISTORY. 
1. Tell what you know of Acadia. 2. Who founded the 
Bank of North America? 3. When and where was the first 
settlement in Mississippi? In Alabama? 4. What was 
Jefferson's objection to the Constitution of the United 
States? 5. When was the Bank of the United States estab- 
lished? How many times did it fail? Time of final fail- 
ure? 6. Who was Sir William Johnson? 7. For what is 
Charleston, South Carolina, noted in American history? 8. 
What forts formerly occupied the sites of Chicago and 
Pittsburg? 9. How long did the Swedes maintain a sepa- 
rate government in the United States? Sketch the history 
of their state. 10. What tribe of Indians became the sixth 
nation in the League of the Iroquois? 



Appendix No. 1. 



80XWELL-PATTERS0N EXAMINATIONS, APRIL 18, 

1908. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. How many voyages did Columbus make? What was 
the result of one? 2. Give an important fact about each 
of these: John Winthrop, James Oglethorpe, Sir William. 
Berkeley, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton. 3. 
Who discovered the following: Mississippi river. Pacific 
ocean, Hudson river, Florida? 4. Name one of the colo- 
nial wars, and give its causes and results. 5. Give a brief 
account of Burgojme's campaign, telling its object and out- 
come. 6. Explain briefly what is meant by the Declara- 
tion of Independence. 7. Tell from whom and how the 
United States obtained the territory embraced within each 
of these states or territories: Ohio, Missouri, California, 
Florida, Alaska. 8. Name three great American inven- 
tions with the name of the inventor of each. 9. Connect 
each of these names and places with the history of the 
Civil War: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Appomattox, W. T. 
Sherman, Admiral Farragut. 10. What are the qualifica- 
tions of a voter in Ohio? What is meant by "the legisla- 
ture," and how is it chosen? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. What purposes do bones serve? What quality of 
bone is due to tne presence of (a) mineral matter; (b) 
animal matter? 2. Describe and give an example of a 
hinge joint. 3. Name the cavities of the heart. 4. State 
two purposes of the circulation of the blood. 5. What 
fluid in the body has to do chiefly with the digestion of (a) 
fats, (b) starch, (c) albumen? 6. Name (a) a voluntary 
muscle, (c) an involuntary muscle. 7. Of what does the 
cerebro-spinal nervous system consist? 9. Why is it espe- 
cially dangerous to perform surgical operations upon con- 
firmed beer drinkers? 9. Name five vegetable foods and 
two mineral foods. 10. Draw a cross section of the eye. 
Name its coats and humors. 

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66 BOXWELL-PATTEKSON EXAMINATIONS. 

READING. 
Examiners will conduct an ofal examination in reading. 

ARITHMETIC. 

Answer these questions: How many years have you 
studied arithmetic? What books have you studied? Have 
you been doing eighth grade work since the beginning of 
the present school year? 1. Find the total exact cost of 
4^ pounds of butter at 32 cents a pound, 4 dozen and 10 
eggs at 18 cents a dozen, 14 peck of potatoes at 80 cents a 
bushel. 2. Solve: (.0004+.055+.3456) X (i^— .0256)^.01. 
3. A certain subtrahend is 11^, the remainder 15%. Find 
the minuend. 4. John can spade a garden in 6 days, 
Thomas in 5 days, James in 4 days. If all unite and work 
at the usual rate, how long will it take them together? 5. 
A young man inherited some money. He invested $500 at 
4%, and the remainder at 5%. His income was $120 an- 
nually. How much did he inherit? 6. When the selling 
price and gain o:^ loss per cent, are given, how do you find 
the cost? 7. At /he rate of 2^ miles per hour, how many 
minutes will it take to walk around a square field contain- 
ing 15% acres? 8. What is a man's tax whose farm val- 
ued at $4,200, is taxed at y-^ of its value at 15 mills on the 
dollar? 9. The rotunda of the capital at Columbus is cir- 
cular in form and is about 64^/^ feet in diameter. Find the 
cost of a marble floor at 75 cents a square foot. 10. A 
cow gave 12 pints of milk each evening and 10 pints each 
morning in the month of March. How many gallons of 
milk did she yield? If a pint of milk weighs a pound, and 
the milk tests 3.9% butter fat, how many pounds of butter 
were produced? 

GRAMMAR. 
"The night is mother of the day. 

The winter of the spring; 
And even upon old decay 

The greenest mosses cling. 
Behind the clouds the starlight lurks. 

Through showers the sunbeams fall; 
For God, who loveth all His works, 

Has left His hope with all." 

—J. G. Whittier. 



pupils' examinations, 1908. 67 

1. Name the nouns in the first four lines, stating which 
are in the nominative case and which are in the objective 
case. 2. Select two verbs and parse them in full. 3. 
Name the adjectives and tell to which class each belongs. 
(Give each adjective but once.) 4. (a) Write the plurals 
of these nouns: Father-in-law, hero, money, city, calf. 
(b) Write the possessive plural of these: Man, child, 
farmer, ox, lady. 5. (a) How is each of the following 
formed: Passive voice, progressive form, (b) Write a 
sentence containing an adjective clause. 6 Conjugate the 
verb go (a) in the past perfect tense, indicative mode; 
(b) in the present tense, subjunctive mode. 7. Write a 
letter to a former teacher describing your school work and 
giving details about the subjects you like. 8. Tell in your 
own words what you understand by the above quotation. 

Note. — General appearance of manuscript, use of capital 
letters, and punctuation will be considered in grading this 
subject. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Define latitude and longitude. About what is the 
longitude of your home? 2. Define each of these: Archi- 
pelago, mountain, plateau, equator, pole. 3. What natural 
causes influence the growth of a city. Name a city which 
illustrates your answer. 4. Name five Ohio exports and 
five imports. 5. Name a state of the United States that 
excels in the production of sugar; one that excels in the 
production of corn; one that excels in cotton. 6. Locate 
each of these: Sitka, Honolulu, Galveston, Cape Town, 
Madrid. 7. Name three important countries of South 
America. Give the chief city and form of government of 
each. 8. Why do we have change of seasons? Answer 
briefly. 9. What relation exists between the climate of a 
country and the occupations of its people? 10. Name four 
principal rivers and five chief cities in Ohio. 

WRITING. 

Write the following selections: The best and highest 
thing a man can do is to sow a seed, whether it be in the 
shape of a wora, an act. or an acorn. — James Boyle 
O'Reilly. 



68 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

If I could put my words in song 

And tell what's there enjoyed, 
All men would to my gardens throng, 

And leave the cities void. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Give three uses of a dictionary. 2. Copy each of the 
following, using the correct word selected from the words 
in parenthesis: (a) We are never (two, to, too) old (two, 
to, too) learn, (b) The women were weeping and (wring- 
ing, ringing) (their, there) hands, (c) The (leaf, lief) 
supplies food for the (berry, bury), (d) Nearly (all, awl) 
the men able to (bare, bear) arms had (bin, been) (draft, 
draught) ed into service. 3. Indicate by the proper dia- 
critic marks the sounds of the vowels in the following 
words: Aunt, fare, bird, grass, they. 4-10. Spell the fol- 
lowing words, to be pronounced by the examiner: Neces 
sary, cipher, lilies, sense, mischief, truly, lovely, loving, 
weight, expense, hundredths, commission, principal (chief) 
ankle, gastric, sneezing, pulse, muscle, Kew Hampshire, 
Havana, Dakota, comparative, loam, dairying, linen, shoul 
der, criminal, currency, supervisor, answer, duties, multi- 
plicand, arteries, medicine, debt. (70 credits.) 



pupils' examinations, 1908. 69 



Appendix No. 2. 

BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATION, MAY 9, 1908. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Write a short account of De Soto's explorations in 
America'. 2. Name one Dutch, one French and one Eng- 
lish discoverer or explorer of America, and tell what one 
of them did. 3. Give the name of a person prominently- 
identified with the settlement of each of these states: 
Georgia, Maryland, Kentucky. 4. What historical events 
are suggested by the dates 1776 and 1789? What great 
question was decided in the time between these dates? 
5. Give what facts you can in connection with the public 
life of Thomas Jefferson. 6. For what important inven- 
tion are we indebted to Eli Whitney? Elias Howe? S. F. 
B. Morse? 7. What was the Missouri Compromise? When 
was it adopted? 8. What were the effects of the Eman- 
cipation Proclamation? By whom was it issued? 9. What 
service was rendered the United States by each of these 
persons: John Paul Jones, Henry Clay, Daniel "Webster, 
U. S. Grant? 10. Name the three departments of the 
United States Government. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. What provision is made in the bones to secure light- 
ness? 2. Describe the lungs as to position and the work 
they perform. 3. Define stimulant. Define narcotic. 4. 
Give hygienic reasons for breathing through the nostrils 
rather than through the mouth. 5. Through what does the 
blood flow in its passage from the right ventricle to the left 
auricle? 6. In the process of digestion, what is the work 
of the saliva? Of the gastric juice? 7. What and where 
is the diaphragm? On which side of the body does the 
stomach lie mainly? 8. What are the two great divisions 
of the nervous system? 9. Name two poisons and give an 



70 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

antidote for each. 10. Locate each of these: Larynx, cor 
nea, and tympanum. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Write the following, using capitals and marks of 
punctuation where they snould appear: president mc- 
kinley was shot friday sept 6 1901 he died Saturday sept 14, 
1901. i dont like to study english grammar i write cor- 
rectly enough. 2. Define the following terms used in gram- 
mar: Case, tense, voice, conjunction. 3. What is the 
difference between an adjective and an adverb? Illustrate 
your answer by short sentences or expressions. 4. Com- 
pare these words: Good, heavy, soon. Give the plural of 
these words: City, woman, this. 5. Write four pronouns 
used in the nominative case only, and four used in the 
objective case only. 6. Give the past tense of the follow- 
ing verbs: Teach, swim, choose, sit, set, see, lie (to re- 
cline), wear. 7. What part of speech is each word in the 
following sentence: The great procession which was pass- 
ing was carefully watched by him. 8. Write a simple sen- 
tence containing an adjective phrase, a complex sentence, 
and a compound sentence. 9-10. Write a letter to your 
teacher giving an account of your plans for next year. 

READING. 
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. Multiply 90 thousandths by 8 hundred and divide the 
product by 144 millionths. 2. Find the cost of 20 miles of 
wire at 3,5 cents a pound, supposing that 1 pound stretches 
50 feet. 3. How do you change a common fraction to a 
decimal? A decimal to a common fraction? Illustrate 
each. 4. How many rods long is the side of a square field 
containing 40 acres? 5. Having lost 12 1/270 of his capital, 
a man had $10,850 left. How much did he lose? 6. Find 
the exact interest on $200 at 7% per annum from January 
2, 1908, to March 15, 1908 (365 days to the year). 7. After 
peeling 8 pounds 4 ounces of potatoes, it was found that the 
peeling weighed two pounds and twelve ounces. What per 



pupils' examinations^ 1909. 71 

cent, was lost? 8. Three men rented an automobile for 
$140. One man used it one day a week, another two days 
a week, and the third four days a week. How much of the 
rental should each pay? 9. How is the area of a sphere 
found from its radius? How do you find the volume of a 
cylinder? 10. What must be the depth of a cubical bin 
which contains as many bushels of wheat as another 32 
feet long, 2^ feet wide, and 6 feet deep? 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Explain the following terms: Equator, tropic, strait, 
glacier. 2. Name and locate five of the leading manufac- 
turing cities of the United States. 3. Name two countries 
where each of the following is produced: Iron, gold, cof- 
fee, tea, sugar. 4. What part of Ohio produces large 
quantities of coal; of petroleum; of natural gas? 5. Name 
four important countries of Europe. Give the chief city 
and form of government of each. 6. What and where is 
each of these: Honolulu, Amazon, Key West, Korea, 
Sahara? 7. How does Australia compare in size with the 
United States? To whom does Australia belong? 8. What 
is the greatest latitude a place may have? What is the 
latitude of your home? 9. When are our days and nights 
of equal length? 10. Draw an outline map of your coun- 
try, showing thereon the principal cities or Tillages, and 
important water courses. 

WRITING. 

Copy the following quotations in your best hand-writing: 
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you 
can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a 
thought of fame." "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to 
the Republic for which it stands; one country indivisible, 
with liberty and justice for all." 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Make and give the names of five marks used to indi- 
cate the sounds of vowels. (10 credits.) 2. Give the 
meaning of the following prefixes and suffixes: Less, er. 



72 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

able, semi, dis. (10 credits.) 3. Write sentences contain- 
ing these words: Cell, sell; clime, climb; wring, ring. (10 
credits.) 4-10. Spell the following words: Divisor, sub- 
trahend, transition, archipelago, rye, Mediterranean, Cau- 
casian, caterpillar, promiscuous, sphere, cylinder, biscuit, 
capital letter, nominative, capillaries, chloroform, corpus- 
cles, humerus, supreme, preparation, prairie, Gibraltar, an- 
nual, Massachusetts, currants, raspberries, Luther Burbank, 
extremes, Missouri, secede, chestnut, separate, imperative^ 
ecliptic, parallel. (70 credits.) 



pupils' examinations, J909. 73 

Appendix No. 3. 

BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, MAY 8, 1909. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Give the proper abbreviations for the following: Ac- 
count, doctor, debtor, junior, the present month. 2. Men- 
tion five common prefixes and illustrate the same in words. 
3. Indicate by diacritical marks two sounds each of c, g, s 
and o. 4-10. Spell the following words to be pronounced by 
the examiner: Privilege, antecedent, allege, mischievous, 
caterpillar, Glasgow, Chicago, parallel, Greenwich, herring, 
salmon, anthracite, screen, Yankee, definitely, dense, ex- 
treme, pension, burr, axle, tedder, poplar, hickory, trolley, 
grosbeak, stalk, Percheron, currycomb, suet, sirloin, ging- 
ham, gourd, genial, sulphur, chloroform. (The examiner 
will define any word that may not be clear to the appli- 
cant.) 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

1. Give the dates of the following: The landing of the 
Pilgrims, the birth of Washington, the battle of Bunker 
Hill, Lee's surrender. 2. (a) Give three important facts 
concerning Henry Hudson's voyages, (b) For whom was 
Virginia named? 3. How did William Penn get Pennsyl- 
vania? What city did he found? 4. Give briefly the causes 
of the American Revolution, period of time covered and 
terms of treaty that ended the war. 5. What celebrated 
document was drawn up by Thomas Jefferson? What was 
the most important event of his term as President? 6. For 
what is each of the following noted: Daniel Boone, Robert 
Fulton, Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, John Brown? 7. 
What is the meaning of slavery? Mention five states in 
which slavery existed in 1860. 8. When Texas wished to 
join the Union, how did the people of the North feel? 
Those of the South? What trouble resulted? 9. How long 
did the Civil War last? Name four able generals in the 
Union army; four in the Confederate army. 10. What are 



74 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

the necessary qualifications of a voter in Ohio? On what 
question is woman entitled to vote in Ohio? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. What is meant by each of the following: Oxygen, 
saliva, tendon, abdomen, iris? 2. Name and locate ten 
bones of the trunk. 3. What is meant by the nervous sys- 
tem? Name the chief parts of this system. 4. Describe 
somewhat fully one of the following: The heart, the eye, 
the ear. 5. What is a sprain? How should it be treated? 
6. What is impure air? Tell how it acts on the brain. 7. 
What foods are digested by the gastric juice? What foods 
are digested in the intestines? 8. Give two reasons why 
foods are usually cooked. 9. How do you distinguish by 
the flow of blood whether an injury affects a vein, an artery 
or the capillaries? 10. How does alcohol produce the 
drunkard's red nose? 

WRITING. 

Copy the following in your best handwriting: 

" 'Tis the rule of the land, that, when travelers meet, 
In highway or byway, in alley or street. 
On foot or in wagons, by day or by night. 
Each favor the other and turn to the right." 
"First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his 
countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and 
endearing scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, tem- 
perate, and sincere; uniform, dignified and commanding, 
his example was as edifying to all around him as were the 
effects of that example lasting." — Lee. 

GRAMMAR. 
1. Analyze or diagram the following sentence: "When 
Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' the Youth replies, 'I can.' " 
— Emerson. 2. Referring to Question 1, compare "low;" 
decline "thou;" give the mode of "must." 3. How many 
and what kinds of clauses are there in the sentence in 
Question 1? 4. Explain the use of quotation marks in Ques- 
tion 1. Place quotation marks and punctuate correctly the 
following sentence: Doesn't it seem good she asked to be 



pupils' examinations, 1909. 75 

back in the old home 5. What is a phrase? Write one 
sentence containing two different kinds of phrases. 6. 
With reference to manner, what kind of an adverb is "low" 
in Question 1? Show in a sentence of your own construc- 
tion that you understand the use of a conjunctive adverb. 
7. How is the passive voice formed? Has "whispers" in 
Question 1 a passive voice? Why or why not? 8. Give the 
gender and number of each of the following nouns: Hens, 
business, cattle, gander, Jesse. 9. Give the mode and tense 
of the verbs in the following sentence: A popular teacher 
has said, "Boys, never be afraid to face the consequences 
of a righteous act." 10. Write a short letter to a business 
firm ordering some useful articles you have seen advertised 
in a magazine. 

ARITHMETIC. 
1. Define abstract number, multiple of a number, root, 
face of a note. 2. Simplify and express decimally the fol- 
lowing: 

i^y,—2y^)^54 of 3/^ 

3. To fence a square lot at $2.00 a rod costs $120.00. What 
is the land worth at $1600 an acre? 4. A man owns 100 
acres of coal land, the coal being 4^ feet thick. Allowing 
35 cubic feet to the ton, how many tons of coal in the farm? 
5. If the cost of feeding 75 hens for 7 weeks is $10.50, what 
will it cost to feed 40 hens for 9 weeks? Solve by analysis 
or proportion. 6. A farmer sold 132 bushels, three pecks, 
of wheat, which was 45 per cent, of his crop. How many 
bushels did he have left? 7. A farmer bought 12 head of 
cattle at $45 each on December 1, 1908, giving his promis- 
sory note at 6 per cent. He paid the note April 24, 1909. 
What was the amount of the principal and interest? 8. A 
schoolhouse costing $9600 is to be built in a township 
whose property is valued at $1,900,000 the house to be paid 
for in ten years. Find the rate of taxation. 9. What is the 
difference in dollars between a discount of 50 per cent, on 
$800 and two discounts of 25 per cent, and 25 per cent? 
10. A square lot has an area of 169 square rods. How far 



76 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

is it around the lot? How far is it around a lot four times 
this area? 

GEOGRAPHY. 
1. Indicate on your paper a hemisphere and mark thereon 
the width of the zones. 2. Describe two of the principal 
ocean currents. Tell what effect they have on climate. 3. 
What conditions of heat and moisture favor the coffee 
plant? Mention three leading coffee producing areas. 4. 
Locate and state the importance of five of the following: 
Pittsburg, Sheffield, New Orleans, Havre, Seattle, Tokio, 
Madras, Liverpool. 5. Name three outlying dependencies 
of the United States. Of what importance is each? 6. 
What advantage does Europe derive from the Suez canal? 
7. Describe a continuous practical route from New York to 
Manila. 8. Draw a map of your county and indicate on it 
the township in which you live. 9. State the purposes and 
destination of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign trip. 10. De- 
fine each of the following: Delta, crater, isthmus, orbit. 

READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 



PUPILS'" EXAMINATIONS, 1909. 77 



Appendix No. 4. 



BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, APRIL 17, 
1909. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. For what do you use a dictionary? Name a good one. 
2. Copy the following sentences, using the correct word 
selected from the words in parenthesis: (a) A (vale, veil) 
of mist enveloped the mountain, (b) Members of the cat 
tribe (clime, climb) by means of their (claws, clause), (c) 
His (style, stile) in (right, rite, write, wright) ing was ex- 
cellent. 3. Indicate by the use of the proper diacritical 
marks the sound of the vowels in the following words : Arc, 
fur, more, food, last. 4-10. Spell the following words to be 
pronounced by the examiner: Business, commerce, blizzard, 
grievous, chalk, separate, genuine, difference, unnatural, 
colonel, auxiliary, patella, epidermis, nasal, Buchanan, 
Roosevelt, biology, Himalaya, Sweden, Shiloh, monitor, vein, 
wholly, ascent (motion upward), complete, believing, Mis- 
souri, misspell, currant (a berry), circle, domicile, governor, 
controller, inauguration, monosyllable. (70 credits.) 

READING. 

Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Define language, word, grammar, sentence, appositive. 
2. Give examples showing how sentences are classified (a) 
in regard to meaning; (b) in regard to form. 3. Use a 
word in a sentence as an adjective. Expand the adjective 
into an equivalent phrase. Expand the phrase into an 
equivalent clause. 4. Use in sentences and name each of 
the following: (a) A collective noun, (b) a relative pro- 
noun, (c) a descriptive adjective, (d) an adverb of degree, 
(e) a present participle. 5. Give the synopsis, first person 
singular, of the verb "see" in all the tenses of the indicative 
mode, active voice. 6. (a) Write the possessive, singular 



78 BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

and plural, of each of these words: Child, deer, wolf, fly, 
turkey, (b) Compare the following: Fine, worthy, thin, 
splendid, much. 7. Name the part of speech of each word 
in the following: We believe that truth has never changed 
the beginning of creation. 8. Write with proper reference 
to capitals and punctuation: the teacher quietly turned to 
the class and remarked you see children I have placed on 
the board a stanza for you to learn. 

in learning proudly said the birch 
i once played quite a part 

whenever little boys were dull 
why I could make them smart 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Who were the Cabots? From what country did they 
sail? Tell what they discovered. 2. Tell the story of 
Ponce de Leon; of Ds Soto. 3. What two companies were 
formed in England in the early part of the seventeenth 
century for the purpose of colonizing America? Tell 
briefly what was done by each. 4. Tell something about 
each of the following: King Philip, Father Marquette, Gen- 
eral Oglethorpe. 5. Why did the colonists claim that Par- 
liament had no right to tax them? What was the Stamp 
Act? 6. Name five important men connected with the 
American Revolution and tell for what each is noted. 7. 
When were railroads first 'built in America? Tell the story 
of the invention of the telegraph, or of the laying of the 
telegraphic cable under the ocean. 8. Why did the people 
of the South wish to leave the Union in 1861? How many 
states seceded? What name did the seceding states take? 
9. Mention three great surrenders that were made to Gen- 
eral Grant during the Civil War, and give an important re- 
sult of each surrender. 10. What does the Constitution 
say in regard to the election of members of the House of 
Representati ves ? 

WRITING. 

Copy the following in yaur best handwriting: "True 
glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in 



pupils' examinations, 1909. 79 

writing what deserves to be read, and so living as to make 
the world happier and better for our living in it." 
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; 

Th' eternal years of God are hers; 
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, 

And dies among his worshippers. — Bryant. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Define the following terms: Orbit, meridian, conti- 
nent, isthmus, delta. 2. What conditions determine (a) 
the climate of a country, (b) the occupations of men? 3. 
Mention three kinds of government and tell which kind is 
found in each of the following: United States, Japan, 
France, Russia, England. 4. Write a paragraph on the 
Panama canal. 5. Name and locate ten of the world's lead- 
ing seaports. 6. Mention five countries, two rivers and 
three cities of South America. 7. Take an imaginary trip 
across the United States. Name in their order the states 
through which you would pass and the important cities you 
would see. 8. Name five products the people of the United 
States send to other countries and name the country to 
which each Is sent. 9: Of what interest to the American 
government are the following: Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, 
Panama? 10. Draw a map of Ohio, Locate thereon your 
county seat, five important cities, and three important 
rivers. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Name five organs of the body and state a function of 
each. 2. State the difference between veins and arteries. 
3. Describe the ribs as to shape, arrangement, number, at- 
tachment. 4. Describe the structure of the teeth. In the 
care of the teeth what should be observed? What should 
be avoided? 5. What are the effects of impure air upon 
the system? 6. Illustrate by diagram the circulation of the 
blood, showing the two systems of circulation. 7. What is 
the use of respiration? Explain. 8. What is each of the 
following: Retina, esophagus, cerebrum, pericardium, dia- 
phragm. 9. Apply these adjectives to the correct nouns: 



80 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Flexor, vitreous, hepatic, pulmonary, mitral. 10. Name the 
digestive fluids and state the office of each. 

ARITHMETIC. 
1. Find the amount of the following bill, retaining all 
fractions: 300 pounds of sugar at 4^ cents a pound; 1 
dozen and 10 eggs at 32 cents a dozen; ^ dozen knives and 
forks at $2.50 a dozen; 12^ yards of toweling at 12i^ cents 
a yard. 2. Taking the two numbers 445.3 and .073, find 
(a) their sum, (b) their difference, (c) their product, (d) 
the quotient of the first divided by the second. {2y2 credits 
for each part.) 3. A field is a half mile long and a quarter 
of a mile wide. If two and one-fourth acres are plowed 
each day, how many days will be required to plow it? 4. 
Having the radius of a circle, how can you find the area 
of the circle? Having the dimensions of a joist, how do 
you find the number of board feet it contains? 5. A house 
and lot are worth $3500. The house is worth six times as 
much as the lot; find the value of each. 6. Find the sim- 
ple interest on $2347.50 for three years, six months and 
fifteen days at 4 14 per cent, per annum. 7. There are 40 
pupils in a class, and each needs a ruler and drawing com- 
passes. The price of the rulers is $0.35 per dozen net, and 
of the compasses $1.65 per dozen, less 10 per cent, and 5 
per cent. What will the supplies cost the school? 8. The 
floor of a room is square and contains 144 square feet. The 
room contains 1368 cubic feet. Find the three dimensions 
of the room. 9. (a) A boy was present 304 half days dur- 
ing the school year, which contained 320 half days. What 
was his per cent, of attendance? (b) In the same school a 
girl attended 313 half days. What was her per cent, of 
attendance? 10. The center pole of a circus tent is 35 feet 
high, and a guy rope is stretched from the top of the pole 
to a stake 56 feet from the bottom. How long is the rope, 
supposing the ground level and the rope straight, allowing 
four inches for tying? 



Appendix No. 5. 



BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, APRIL 16, 
1910. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Describe the early settlement of Ohio. 2. Who were 
the inhabitants of Ohio before the whites? Write about 
their manner of living. 3. Who is our G-overnor? What are 
his duties? What are the duties of any of our county offi- 
cials? 4. Name the important wars in America before the 
Revolution. Give causes and results of one of them. What 
were the terms of the treaty that closed this war? 5. What 
is the Declaration of Independence? What is the Constitu- 
tion? When was each adopted? Where? By whom? 6. 
Give an event in the life of each of the following men: W. 
T. Sherman, James Russell Lowell, Rutherford B. Hayes, 
Capt. John Smith, Jacques Marquette, Robert Fulton, Mar- 
quis De Lafayette, and Admiral George Dewey. 7. Define 
history, rebellion, war, statesman, civil government, con- 
gress, treasurer. 8. Outline the administration of any presi- 
dent since the Civil war. What were the chief events of his 
term of office? 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. What is a fraction? A note? Interest? A decimal 
fraction? A circle? 2. Smith and Oaks load 37 cars with 
1,056,600 lb. of soap; allowing 64 lbs. to the box, how many 
boxes did it take? 3. Simplify: (9%X7 3-7)-f-3.5=? If ^ 
of a number is 20.256, what is the whole number? 4. Find 
the L. C. M. of 2, 6, 8, 12, 18, 40, 63 and 128. 5. How many 
square feet of zinc will be needed to line the five sides of 
an open cubical tank containing 1728 cubic feet? 6. Find 
the interest on a note of $675 given July 1, 1906, drawing 
6% interest and due the day you are taking this examina- 
tion. 7. Add 2358, 3165, 16395, 406, 2749, 428690, 3174, 4528, 
53185, 4749 and divide the sum by 128. 8. How many yards 

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82 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

of cloth at $1% per yard, will I receive in exchange for 8 
bu. 2 pks. 5 qts. 1 pt. of plums at $2.50 per bushel? 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Draw an outline map of the United States showing five 
rivers, ten cities, two mountain ranges, two moimtain 
peaks, and a great battlefield. 2. Name the important ex- 
ports of Ohio; name the most important manufactured pro- 
ducts of our state; give the area and population of Ohio. 3. 
Locate three largest rivers of Europe and a city upon each 
one; name the products of the valley of each river. 4. 
What is the capital of Brazil? Of India? Of Sweden? Of 
Egypt? Of Panama? 5. Give the principal physical 
features of Siberia; of Australia. What are the occupations 
of the people of each of these countries? 6. Locate and 
tell what is Hawaii; Valparaiso; Dallas; Ganges; Aleu- 
tians; Gibraltar; Yangtze; Sahara; Algiers; Sumatra. 7. 
If you made a trip to each of the following places, what 
products would you expect to buy in quantities: Cape- 
town? Seattle? St. Petersburg? Manilla? Odessa? 8. 
What kind of government and religion has Greece? Brazil? 
Canada? Japan? Egypt? 

GRAMMAR. 

1. What is the subject of a sentence? Write a sentence 
with a noun for the subject. Write another sentence with 
a clause for the subject. 2. Write the singular and plural 
possessive forms of ox, pupil, Ohio, calf, he, sky, brother. 
3. Write a memory gem either prose or poetry of at least 
six lines. (Observe the rules of punctuation, spelling, capi- 
talization, etc.) 4. Define transitive verb and passive voice. 
Show each of these in sentences. 5. Write a letter to a 
newspaper answering an advertisement that called for ap- 
plicants for a position of clerk in a store to worn after 
school hours and on Saturdays. 6. Define adjective and 
the different kinds of adjectives. Write sentences showing 
these adjectives in their proper uses. 7. What is a pro- 
noun? Decline I, thou, she, it, he and who. 8. Analyze, or 
diagram: "They are never alone that" are accompanied 



pupils' examinations, :j10. 83 

witli noble thoughts. Parse, or give the construction of the 
words enclosed in quotations. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Name and locate three vital organs of the b(?dy. Give 
the functions of each. 2. What is the use of the outer ear? 
How protect the inner ear? How do we endanger our good 
hearing sometimes? 3. What is excretion? What are its 
uses? Names two organs of excretion. 4. Describe the 
composition of the blood. What are the chief functions of 
the blood? 5. What can you say of the motions of the 
heart? Of the eye lids? 6. What foods and drinks are best 
for young people? Name some drinks very harmful. Nam© 
some foods that may do harm. 7. What is the portal cir- 
culation? Mastication? A pulsation? The periosteum? 
Absorption? 8. Give the uses of the nervous system. Of 
the cerebellum. Of sleep. How do alcoholics and narcotics 
hurt or hinder either of these? 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1, What is a vowel? A syllable? Pronunciation? 2. 
Show the different sounds of C and G in words properly 
marked. 3. Define silent letter, consonant, accent, poly- 
syllable, and primitive word. 4. Mark these words with the 
proper diacritical markings: Nasal, cartilage, Brazil, mer- 
ciful, Tecumseh, watch, humid, Cuyahoga, valise, verify. 5. 
Spell: Alluvial, glaciers, delve, varies, chrysanthemum, 
Mohican, deity, tread, prophecy, secrecy, precede, abbeys, 
fireplace, frigid, fertile, apology, plenteous, trophy, Porto 
Rico. 

WRITING. 

Write a stanza of poetry not to exceed four lines in 
length as a sample of your penmanship. 

READING. 

Examiners will conduct the examination on this subject 
orally. 



Appendix No. 6. 



BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, MAY 21, 1910. 
GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Drai^ an outline map of Ohio showing your own county 
and a few others, five cities, five rivers, and such other 
localities as you think will help to make a good map. 2. 
What kind of government has Cuba? Hawaii? District of 
Columbia? Switzerland? Egypt? Chili? Scotland? The 
Philippines? Name an important city of each of these. S. 
3. Bound any three states west of the Mississippi river to- 
gether as a group. Name the capital of each of them and 
the products. 4. What is longitude? Latitude? How is 
each of these measured? What is Standard Time? 5. 
Name the seas on the coast of Asia. Name a city on each. 
6. If you were to sail from New York with a cargo, what 
would you take with you to sell in St. Petersburg? What 
would you be able to get for your New York cargo that 
would be taken in exchange for it? Suppose you make the 
same kind of a trip between New York and Hong Kong, 
what articles would you exchange? 7. Give the principte 
physical features of Canada. What can you say of the gov 
emment? Why are so many immigrating to Canada? 8. 
Compare California and Ohio in size, location, products and 
climate. 9. Name ten very large cities of Europe. • For 
what is each of these noted? Where are they located? 
10. Describe one of the following in not less than eight 
lines: Panama Canal, Washington, D. C, the Nile River, 
or Pekin. 

ARITHMETIC. 

1. Write the table by which we buy cloth. The table by 
which we buy land. The table by which we buy vinegar. 
The table by which we measure time. 

2. Solve: 7 2 

( of ) X (iy2+l2^)=:what? 

8 31/2 

3. At $75.50 per acre, what will the land cost in a field 48 
rods long and 37.5 rods wide? 4. (This problem must be 
solved correctly in every way to merit any grade.) Add 
732, 1593, 206. 39578, 1840, 453, 173946. Sl^QG. 13549, 965. 746 

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pupils' examinations, 1910. 85 

and multiply the sum by 279. 5. What do I really pay for 
goods listed at $432, if I get discounts of 121^ and 33i^ per 
cent? 6-7. A man bought an automobile worth $1500 at a 
discount of 20 per cent. After using it one season he sold 
it for 15 per cent less than he paid for it. What was his 
loss? If he had sold it for $13000, what per cent would he 
have gained or lost? 8. A bin is 8 ft. 6 in. long, 5 ft. 4 in. 
wide, and 4 ft. deep. What is the wheat in it worth at 98 
cents a bushel? 9-10. Mr. Davis sold a farm for $12,400; he 
took a note for 1 yr. 3 mo. drawing interest at 8 per cent. 
The man who bought the farm paid the note when due and 
Mr. Davis purchased another farm at $110 iper acre with the 
money. In a few days he sold this farm for $120 per acre; 
what per cent did he gain or lose? 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Describe a bone. Give the uses of the skeleton. 2. 
What would you do if a playmate, in a game with you 
would suffer a broken arm? What would you do if he were 
to cut himself severely? 3. Give specific directions for car- 
ing for the teeth. For the nails. For the ears. 4. What is 
digestion? Toothache? Indigestion? Gastric juice? Ven- 
tilation? 5. Make a drawing of the eye; name and give the 
uses of five different parts of it. 6. What are the uses of 
the power to taste? To smell? To talk? To think? Ex- 
plain fully how any one of these is done. 7. Name three dif- 
ferent kinds of joints. Why these different kinds? What 
injuries may happen to a joint? How treat such an injury? 
8. What is the chief function of the skin? Of the pleura? 
Of the heart? Of the arteries? Of the eyelash? 9. How 
preserve your good eyesight? How improve your breath- 
ing? How may we injure our digest on? How may we im- 
prove our digestive powers? 10. Name the divisions of the 
brain and give the functions of each. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Why should we remember July 4th? February 22d? 
February 12th? September 10, 1813? The year 1803? De- 
scribe an event in connection with one of these dates. 2. 



86 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

Write the preamble to our National Constitution. Give the 
term, duties and salary of our President. 3. Who is a 
judge? A justice of the peace? A county commissioner? 
A county examiner? Name one each of these officials. 4. 
Describe the settlement of Pennsylvania. Name as many 
very important events that occurred within this state as you 
can. Give the dates of these events. 5. Give the causes 
and results of the Civil War. Name three great men on 
each side in this war who were soldiers; three on each side 
who were prominent and yet were not soldiers. In what 
ways were these last three men prominent? 6. Write a 
biography of one of the following men: Robert Fulton, 
Henry Clay, James Oglethorpe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
Cyrus W. Field, Sam Houston, or John Quincy Adams. 7. 
What books upon the subjects found in history have you 
read besides the regular text-book of your school? In what 
other writings or printed matter may you learn of his- 
torical events? Write about one of the following men: 
W. H. Taft, Robert E. Peary, "Mark Twain," or any good 
man who has lived or now lives in your county. 8. What 
do you regard as the greatest event of the period of the 
Civil War? Of the administration of Andrew Jackson? Of 
the last ten years of our history? Write about one of the 
events that you have named. 9. Name three great states- 
men who lived before the time of Buchanan's administra- 
tion. Name four of the president's cabinet at the present 
time. Give the duties of one of them. 10. Give three facts 
concerning the Louisiana Purchase. Two facts concerning 
the acquisition of the territory of Alaska. Three events 
that have occurred in the last five years. 

GRAMMAR. 

1. Name at least five kinds of sentences. Write an ex- 
ample of each kind that you have named. 2. Why or when 
use a comma? A period? An exclamation point? A colon? 
Quotation marks? Write a sentence using the quotation 
marks properly. 3. Give the principal parts of awake, come, 
see, receive, grind, forsake, draw, eat, shake, sow. Write 
the past tense forms of these words in sentences. 4. Write 



pupils' examinations, 1910. 87 

the synopsis of one of the words in the third question in 
the indicative and subjunctive modes. 5. (a) Write a sen- 
tence containing an adverbial element, (b) Another sen- 
tence containing a clause as an adjective element, (c) An- 
other sentence containing a clause used as a noun. 6. Out- 
line the conjunctions and give an example of each kind that 
you use in sentences. 7. Write a letter to a friend in Cin- 
cinnati describing your trip to the examination this morn- 
ing; in this letter write carefully about some special thing 
that you saw or that may be seen on the way to the city 
in which you are taking the examination. 8. Define com- 
parison. Name the different degrees of comparison. Com- 
pare, far, bad, little, much, narrow, precious. 9-10. Diagram, 
or analyze, and pare the words in bold face type: 

Where beams of warm imagination play 
The memory's soft figures melt away. 

READING. 

Examiners will conduct this examination in oral reading. 

WRITING. 

Write four lines of poetry. The regularity of the letters 
and the legibility of the writing will be graded. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Mark these words showing the proper pronunciation: 
Halloo, iceberg, surface, leisure, precinct, portico, exile, Gib- 
raltar, corral, busy. 2. Show the different sounds of E in 
words properly marked. 3. What is a letter? An ele- 
mentary sound? Accent? A primative word? Voice? 4. 
Define suffix and prefix. Give three examples of each. 5. 
Give five letters that never have diacritical marks. 6-10. 
Swell: Bonfire, cancellation, mustard, treasurer, calyx, 
canoes, machinery, civilized, camphor, haughty, preferable, 
quinsy, dairy, indelible, carriage, crescent, glacial, regatta, 
populace, brakeman, a lady's veil, a boy's sleigh, accomplice, 
deceit, veracity. 



Appendix No. 7, 



BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, MAY 20, 

1911. 

ARITHMETIC. 

(Pupils will select any eight.) 
1. AM 647, 8894, 4762810, 40&, 2831 and 7639, multiply the 
sum by 79 and divide the product by 401. (Must be abso- 
lutely correct to receive any credit.) 2. If 5^ of a farm con- 
tains 120 acres, What is the whole farm worth at $1262/^ P^r 
acre? 3. If I buy 12 bu. 3 pk. of berriesi at $3.20 per bu. 
and sell them so as to make 25% on them, wbat do I re- 
ceive for them? 4. (a) From 15.006 take 325 thousandths 
and multiply the remainder by 375 tenths, (b) Reduce 
.67625 to a common fraction of the lowest terms. 5. A field 
is 45 rods long and 32 rods wide; what is the land worth at 
$13'3^ per acre? What will it cost to fence it at $1.80 per 
rod'? 6. How many feet in a mile? How many rods in a 
mile? How many acres in a section? How many inches in 
a yard? How many diagonals in a square? 7. A note of 
$216 was given November 18, 1910, drawing interest at 5 
per cent. What was the amount paid if it was settled on 
the 18th of this month? 8. Find the sum of %, ^, 13/15 
and 5/24; divide this sum by 3' 13/60. 9. What is a frac- 
tion? An improper fraction? A decimal fraction? The 
greatest common divisor? The terms of a fraction? A 
complex fraction? Show how you divide one fraction by 
another. 10. A farmer sent 80O bushels of corn, to a Cin- 
cinnati commission agent who sold the same for 40 cents 
a bushel. He retailed 4% as commission and' bougbt wire 
fence for the farmer at $1.10 per rod for the remainder of 
the money received for the corn. How many rods of fence 
did he buy? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Who is or was Samuel F. B. Morse? King Phillip? 
"CJhamp" Clark? George Rogers Clark? John C. Calhoun? 



pupils' examinatjons, 1911. 89 

Describe an event in the life of one of these men. 2. Write 
What you can of the annexation and admission of Texas. 
3. Describe the settlement of Pennsylvania. For what is 
this state especially noted at this time? 4. How may <h. 
bill become a law? How does a cabinet officer get his posi- 
tion? 5. Name some of the great general improvements 
that our national government has undertaken and per- 
formed. Describe one in its early history. 6. Tell briefly 
of the ocean cables; of the part that the United' States has 
in the Philippine Islands. 7. Give the causes and results 
of the Mexican war. How did this affect the extent of the 
territory of our ow^n country? In what particulars was that 
war a benefit to usi of today? 8. Write from memory any 
section of the Constitution or any paragraph of the Declara- 
tion of Independence. 

WRITING. 

1. Make the capital letters. (20%.) 2: Write not over 
four nor less than tw^o lines of some quotation as' a sample 
of your penmanship. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

1. Mark the following words diacritioally: 'deceive, imita- 
tion, chisel, hyphen, icreature. Z. Show all the sounds of 
"u" in words properly marked. 3. Define liberate, wealth, 
constitution, motorcycle, tedder, fertilize. 4. Abbrebiate 
these words: Oregon, Doctor, In the Year of Our Lord, 
Esquire, Member of Congress, Thomas, Postmaster, Ounce, 
Forenoon, Colonel. 5. Spell: Insincere, arson, react, filter, 
pitied, guide, cavern, herald, trough, sheaths, conceal, 
laundry, disguise, studio, moth, cheapen, resume, subside, 
propel, Puget Sound, cohesion, pineries, hazard, paradise, 
wettest, profile, allspice, pursue, patriot, decimal. (60%.) 

GRAMMAR. 

(Pupil will select any eight questions from this list.) 
1. Diagram this sentence: "Listen to Ruskin's descrip- 
tion of the sea, and you think he must have spent his days 
and years in watching the beauty of its garlanded summer 



90. BOX WELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

waves and the tortured writhing of its wintry billows." 2. 
Parse the words in bold face in the first question. 3. Write 
a short letter to a friend regretting that you cannot accept 
an invitation to go on an excusion with him or her. 4. 
Write the synopsis of the verb "write" in the third person, 
masculine gender. 5. Classify the adjective and give ex- 
amples of each class and kind in each class. Define each 
degree of comparison and give examples. 6. What is a 
participle? A common noun? A transitive verb? Give 
examples of each in sentences. 7. Write who, which, what 
and whom in simple interrogative sentences. Write these 
same words in sentences as relative pronouns. 8. Write ex- 
plicit directions to a stranger telling him how to reach 
the place of this examination from your home. (L/anguage, 
form, spelling, punctuation, etc., to be graded.) 9. Give the 
principal parts of the following verbs and write each form 
in a sentence: arise, work, see, set, and lay. 10. Write a 
memory gem of not less than six lines. Give a short 
biography of the author. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. Define muscle, nerve, food, digestion, gland, epidermis, 
artery, spinal chord. 2. How should we sit in studying? 
Why? How should we walk? How should we eat our food? 
3. What do the muscles do for us? How are they made 
healthy and strong? How injured? 4. Make a drawing of 
the heart and show its divisions. Give the uses of the 
heart. 5. Give the bad effects of alcohol; of tobacco; of 
poor digestion. 6. What does nutrition include? What 
foods are unwholsome? What food principles in milk? In 
meats? In bread? In potatoes? 7. Name some very com- 
mon diseases and tell how we may prevent them. Name 
a poison that is liable to be taken in the home, and give 
its antidote. 8. Name the parts of the ear. Describe one 
of these parts. How may we injure the perfect working 
of the hearing? Then how care for the ear so as to prevent 
had results? 



pupils' examinations, 1911. 91 

GEOGRAPHY. 

1. Draw a map of Europe showing the location of five 
ports, five capitals, five rivers, three islandis and three ag- 
ricultural districts. Name the products of the agricultural 
districts. 2. Name three counties in Ohio named for the 
Indians; five with names of noted men. Give the products 
of the counties along the Ohio River; along Lake Erie. 3. 
What is the climate of southern Alaska? Name its 
products. Being so far north, how do you account for the 
temperate climate here? What minerals are found in 
Alaska? 4. What is rain? Soil? Snow? A cloud? An 
Isothermal line? A county seat. A cereal? A canal? A 
plateau? A tide? 5. Name two railroads of Ohio; name 
some large cities on each one. Name two leading railroads 
of the United States and some cities on them. Name some 
products carried both 'ways on each of these roads. 6 Write 
a paragraph upon one of these topics: "The Panama 
Canal," "The Alps," "The Great Chinese Wall," "The Nile 
Valley and Its Ruins," or "London." 7. Name four countries 
of South Ain erica and their capitals; name the products of 
each of these countries. Which of these products are sold 
in the United States? What products are shipped to these 
countries from the United States? 8. Name the chief trade 
cities of Asia. Name five leading countries of Asia and 
the capital of each. Locate two historic places in Asia and 
tell something of each of them. 

READING. 

1. Wihat papers or magazines do you read? Name some 
articles! that you have read recently. (10%.) 2. Who is our 
vice president? What caused the trouble in Mexico that we 
have been reading about for some time? Locate some inter- 
esting places in the world that you would like to visit and 
tell why you would like to visit them. 4-10. Read for the 
examiners. 



Appendix No. 8. 



BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS, APRIL 15, 
1911. 

GRAMMAR. 

(Pupils will select any nine questions.) 
1. Define and illustrate two classes of verbs according 
to form. 2. Write sentences using correctly the followimg 
verb forms: did, written, broken, saw, spoken, seen. 3; 
Write a paragraph on one of these topics: "A Day in the 
County Seat," "An Imaginary Trip to Washington, D. C," 
"The Best Book That I Read This Year," or "The Useful 
Metals of America." 4. Write from memory some standard 
poem. Who is. the author? 5. What is meant by the prin- 
cipal parts of a verb? By the declension of a noun or 
pronoun? Illustrate. 6. Write the plural of knife, money, 
radius, landlord, 'hero, czar, son-in-law, salad, courthouse. 
7. Write a sentence containing two subordinate clauses. 
Diagram it. Parse the verbs. 8. Write a business letter 
saying that some goods that you purchased do not come up 
to what you thought they ought to be and refuse them in a 
business way and request that the parties of whom you 
bought shall call for an interview upon the subject. 9: De- 
fine number, preposition, verb-phrase, comparison, conjunc- 
tion, conjunctive adverb, modifier, note, letter, and the 
superscription of a letter. 10. What is a dictionary? What 
can you learn from a dictionary? How is it useful in the 
study of grammar? In the study of language work? In 
spelling? 

ORTHOGRAPHY. ■ ~ 

1. Make and name the diacritical marks. Give the uses 
of three of them. 2. Define automobile, treaty, reading, im- 
mense, civil government. 3. Into what classes are letters 
divided? Define each and give examples. 4. Give three 
rules for capital letters. 5. Write the abbreviations for 
honorable, doctor, gentlemen, Ohio, volume. 6. Mark the 

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accent and. diacritics of Ameirica, distribute, superfluous, 
orange, dis'honest, ratio, vacancy, governor, electrician, and 
library. 7, 8, 9, 10. Spell as tbie examiner pronounces: 
Aviator, vigil, Brazil, courtesy, tapestry, grieve, candor, 
reverie, Japanese, merino, sterile, dissent, refrigerate, 
justice, suffrage, peppermint. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

(Pupil will select any nine questions.) 
1. Draw a map of Ohio and on it locate your home, five 
historic places, five rivers, ten cities, some coal mines, and. 
three harbors either on the lake or the river. 2. Name 
five large and five small countries of Europe and the capital 
of each one and tell what hind of government each one has. 
3. Explain the rapid growth of Chicago; of Cleveland; of 
the interest in the Philippine Islands. 4. What kind of 
climate west of the great mountain ranges of the western 
part of both North and South America? What are the 
products of these regions? 5. Name and locate the island 
possessions of the United States. What are the products 
of these islands? Name a city upon each group. 6. Locate 
the chief trade cities of Asia and give the exports and im 
ports of each city. 7. What are the important railroads of 
Ohio? Trace a route of travel that you would take in going 
from your home to some foreign city. What might be some 
of the reasons for this trip? 8. Bound Spain; bound 
Russia; bound Africa. Tell something really interesting 
about each one of these countries or their people. 9. Locate 
the great cotton regions of the world; the great mineral 
regions; the wheat regions; the coffee regions; the sheep 
raising regions; the treeless regions. 10. Write a short 
composition upon any of the following topics: "Raising 
Corn," "The Amazon Valley," "The Reciprocity Trade of 
the United States With Canada," "The Panama Canal" or 
"Our National Congress and Its Work of the Last Year." 

WRITING. 

Write a short selection of poetry or prose from memory 
as a sample of your penmanship. 



94 BOXWELL-PATTERSON EXAMINATIONS. 

READING. 

1. Name three books that you have read in addition to 
your regular school hooks. Tell something about one of 
these and its author. (20'%.) 2. Who is President of the 
United States? Our Governor? Why is the United States 
building the Panama Canal? Name some events during this 
school year that have interested you. (15%.) 3. Read for 
the examiners. (65%.) 

ARITHMETIC. 

(Pupil may solve any nine problems.) 
1. A field 32 rods by 21 rods yielded 46^ bu. of com per 
acre. What was it worth at 61i/^ cents per bushel? 2. Add 
184930, 590526, 78532, 751, 2638901, 6739, and 13607, multiply 
the sum by 29 and divide the product by 211. (Must be 
absolutely correct to receive credit.) 3. A note of $115 was 
given August 1, 1910, drawing interest at 6%. What is the 
amount due April 15, 1911? 4. (a) Reduce .45625 to a com- 
mon fraction of the lowest terms, (b) From 8 thousandths 
take 8 hundredth-thousandths, and' divide the remainder bv 
.2. 5. What will it cost to carpet a floor 27 by 16 feet with 
carpet y^ ot a, yard wide at &TV2 cents per yard? 6. What, 
part of a month is 5 days, 15 hours? 7. If ten men can dig 
a ditch 36' rods long, 2 feet deep in 8 days of 9 hours each, 
in how many days can twelve men dig a ditch 49 rods long 
and 3 feet deep if the days are only 8 hours long? 8. 
lUustrate least common multiple by a problem. Show in a 
practical problem how you make use of least common 
multiple. 9. At what price each must I sell oranges that 
cost 35 -cents per dozen so as to gain 20 per cent on each 
one sold? 10. The difference between ^ of A's money and 
% of it is $30. How much has he? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, INCLUDING CIVIL 
GOVERNMENT. 

1. Who is or was Nathan Hale? Manasseh Cutler? 
Aaron Burr? Marconi? Gifford Pinchot? The Wright 
Brothers? 2. Write five or more lines about the adoption 



pupils' examinations, 1911. 95 

of the National Constitution. Who were some of the lead- 
ing men in the convention? 3. Describe the settlement of 
one of the following states: Ohio, Georgia, California, Ken- 
tucky, or New York. 4. Give the causes and results of the 
French and Indian war; its date and the leading men upon 
each side, 5. Who opposed the election of Lincoln as presi- 
dent? In what year? What other events in this same 
year? Describe one of these events. 6. What was included 
in the Northwest territory? What was the Ordinance of 
1787? 7, What was the Monroe doctrine? The Missouri 
Compromise? 8. Write a short account of the close of the 
Civil War. What was the Reconstruction? 9'. Name some 
great inventions that have improved our civilization. Name 
some great schools of learning that have influenced our 
national growth. What can you say of the value of the 
improved methods of travel in making a better people? 
10. Name the important events of Washington's administra- 
tion. Describe what you believe to be the most important 
event that you have named. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1. What are the uses of cooking and masticating the 
food? Name some different foods. What is digestion? 
How is it aided or hindered? 2. What is circulation? What 
are organs of circulation? What are the general uses of 
the blood? 31 Wwat would you dO' for a playmate who in a 
game had broken his arm and no doctor was near? 4. Give 
the bad effects of alcohol; of cigarettes; of too much study 
and not enough physical exercise. 5. Enumerate some ways 
in which we injure our health. How remedy these? 6. How 
oare for the teeth? For the eyes? What injury may wp 
do to the ears ? 7. Give the effects of breathing. Of over- 
exercising. Of a well of water situated where the drainage 
does not carry the waste water away from the well. 8. 
Define bone, muscle, disease, air, perspiration, tissue, retina, 
vein, digestion, and feeling. 



Provisions of the Boxwell-Patterson Law. 

The full provisions are found in Sections 7746 to 7752 inclu- 
sive. Teachers should have a copy of the Ohio School Laws 
on their desks at all times. A copy may be obtained free by 
applying- to the County Auditor. 

The Boxwell-Patterson Examinations are held only on the 
third Saturday of April and the third Saturday of May. The 
examinations are held by the county examiners, and usually 
at the county seat. The questions are prepared in the office 
of the State School Commiissioner at Columbus. This book 
contains all the questions that have ever been used under this 
law. The branches are indicated by the lists published in this 
book. Pupils taking- the examination must make a minimum 
grade of 50% and an average of 70% in order to pass. No age 
is specified in the law. 

Commencements. — The township board must provide for a 
township commencement for all successful applicants from the 
township and the pupil must there deliver an oration, or decla- 
mation, or read an essay. The county examiners must pro- 
vide a county commencement for all who comply with the law 
in the township commencement, and the examiners also must 
issue diplomas to all entitled to them. 

Admission to High School. — These diplomas admit the hold- 
ers to a first-grade high school, and the pupil is entitled to 
have his or her tuition paid for four years in a first-grade 
school if the township or special district in which the pupil 
lives does not maintain a high school. If the township or 
special district maintains a second-grade high school the board 
shall pay the pupil's tuition for one year to a first-grade 
school; if it maintains a third-grade high school, the pupil is 
entitled to tuition for two years in a first-grade school. See 
Sections 7747, 7748, 7749, 7750, and 7751. 



Notice. — THE OHIO TEACHER, published at Athens, Ohio, 
explains fully many things of interest to pupils and teachers. 
Send for a sample copy if you have not seen it. 

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